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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. . 2006