Synonyms of hoaxing

hoaxing

verb

present participle of hoax

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue

a skilled forger who hoaxed the art world into believing that the paintings were long-lost Vermeers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricking
• fooling
• deceiving
• duping
• gulling
• teasing
• misleading
• suckering
• hoodwinking
• deluding
• kidding
• conning
• misinforming
• cheating
• bamboozling
• humbugging
• spoofing
• cozening
• bluffing
• misguiding
• gaffing
• snookering
• juggling
• beguiling
• sucking in
• snowing
• burning
• catching
• stringing along
• stinging
• having
• having on
• taking in
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• faking out
• leading one up the garden path
• leading one down the garden path
• pulling one's leg
• swindling
• defrauding
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• fleecing
• sticking
• diddling
• rooking
• mulcting
• shortchanging
• putting on
• chiselling
• hustling
• bleeding
• chiseling
• skinning
• flimflamming
• squeezing
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• debunking
• revealing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• disclosing
• undeceiving
• telling
• showing up
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting