Crossword-Solution: HOAXED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hoaxed | imp. & p. p. | of Hoax |
We have 13 clues for the answer “HOAXED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Emulated P. T. Barnum | 1 answer |
| Peddled fake news, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Played a joke on | 1 answer |
| Pulled someone's leg | 1 answer |
| Showed a UFO sighting video, say | 1 answer |
| Humbugged | 2 answers |
| Pulled a fast one | 3 answers |
| Took in, in a way | 6 answers |
| Put one over on | 22 answers |
| Duped | 22 answers |
| tricked | 26 answers |
| Took in | 29 answers |
| Deceived | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOAXED (5)
Daubrecq’s coolness, the assurance with which he hoaxed the police-officials, the contempt with which he lent himself to their visits at his house and, above all, his wonderful self-possession, his easy bearing and the impertinence of his conduct in the presence of the ninth person who was spying on him: all this denoted a man of character, a strong man, with a well-balanced mind, lucid, bold, sure of himself and of the cards in his hand.
All the persons who received these invitations were so astonished to learn that the old man Picot had married a rich wife and was living in the Thuilliers’ old apartment that most of them came to inquire of Monsieur Pascal, the porter, to see if they were hoaxed.
Duchesne had not hoaxed them in regard to the quality of See Yup's medicines, they knew that an attack on the unfortunate Chinaman would in either case reveal their secret and expose them to the ridicule of their brother miners.
How this affair ended I know not,—whether some new lie was coined to account for his release, or whether he was simply told that he had been hoaxed: it mattered little; for the little man was quite as ready to be hoaxed the next day.
With this slap the invisibility of Poinsinet disappeared, the gnomes and genii left him, and he settled down into common life again, and was hoaxed only by vulgar means.
Quotes with HOAXED (1)
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reforme…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1984–2008).