hoax
I
noun
artifice, beguilement, canard, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, counterfeit, cozenage, deceit, deception, defraudation, delusion, device, dupery, duplicity, fabrication, fake, false alarm, false report, falsification, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, imposition, imposture, knavery, lie, ludificatio, machination, masquerade, misrepresentation, pettifogging, practical joke, pretense, ruse, scheme, sham, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trick, trickery, wile
associated concepts: false representation, forgery, fraud, impersonation
II
index
artifice, betray (lead astray), bilk, bunko, canard, circumvent, collusion, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, dupe, ensnare, evade (deceive), fake (noun), fake (verb), false pretense, falsification, frame up, hoodwink, illude, imposture, knavery, maneuver (trick), misrepresent, palter, pretense (pretext), ruse
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006