hoaxy

comparative hoaxier · superlative hoaxiest

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a hoax; prone to hoaxes.

   Of all the unmitigated hoaxes that were ever foisted on a credulous world, Protestantism was about the ‘hoaxiest.’

   1922 April 24, Glasgow Citizen, quoting Hugh Pope, “Father Hugh Pope’s Outrageous Attack upon Protestantism. What ‘Old Nick’ Gets to Chuckle Over.”, in The Watchman […], volume XX, number 52, Sydney, N.S.W., published 28 December 1922, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1

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   The hoax, it admitted later, was “to demonstrate that some contemporary compositions are so obscure as to be indistinguishable from tapes of percussions played at random.” What made the hoax hoaxier was the reaction of music critics, who wrote serious discussions of the Zak composition.

   1961 August 4, “Many of Us Now Feel Better”, in East Liverpool Review, volume 82, number 243, East Liverpool, Oh.: Brush-Moore Newspapers, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2

   In modern times, hoaxes have migrated from the mainstream papers to the tabloid outriders like the old National Enquirer, the new Globe, and the hoaxiest of them all, The Weekly World News, purveyor of the “Bat Boy” cover stories.

   2007 March–April, Robert Love, “Before Jon Stewart: The truth about fake news. Believe it.”, in Columbia Journalism Review, volume XLV, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2

   It’s been a while since we’ve seen a real anti-Semitic hate crime in the USA. We’ve mostly been seeing fake, hoaxy ones.

   2018 October 16, Luis Castillo, “Watch: Arab Moslem White Supremacist Assaults New York Jew – Hate Crime!”, in Daily Stormer, volume 61, published 21 October 2018, page 105, column 1

   Similarly, Agalides argues that it is important that Cadere is sometimes the victim of his stratagems, that he remains visible even as he stumbles. She calls him a trickster in the sense that he is “homeless and nomadic, absurd, mischievous and hoaxy.”

   2020, Lily Woodruff, “Notes”, in Disordering the Establishment: Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, note 15, page 281