Words similar to hoax

Example sentences for: hoax

How can you use “hoax” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Lewinsky" (though it didn't say why) before acknowledging that it "could have been a hoax.
Falun Gong Takes Off Again After Bomb Hoax"-- William Vehrs
And how would one classify the brilliant hoax Avedon perpetrated in the pages of Harper's Bazaar in 1962--a series of garish, hectic, faux-tabloid shots of comedian Mike Nichols and model Suzy Parker cavorting through Europe?
It was all, they insist, a statistical hoax.
Is this a brazen hoax?