Sentence examples for complete hoax from inspiring English sources

The Tasaday were a complete hoax.

I am a crass and ignorant person who considers all poetry, from Shakespeare on down, to be a complete hoax.

— STEVE EDER Now that the interview has aired, the highlights can be entered into the official debate over what role Te'o played in this bizarre story, whether he knew more than he is letting on or he really is naive enough to fall for a complete hoax.

"It's a complete hoax," he said.

This has turned out to be utterly false, as he said on his show that "no one died" at Sandy Hook and called it a "complete hoax".

Citing Schechter's research, anthropologist Noah Porter wrote that "convincing evidence has been provided that the events described by the Chinese media are at least deceptive, if not a complete hoax," also stating "even if there were people who lit themselves on fire and considered themselves Falun Gong practitioners, they would not be representative of Falun Gong practitioners".

The article was a complete and utter hoax perpetrated by one of the magazine's own associate editors, 25-year-old Stephen Glass.

But in the twilight of his life, and in the privacy of these pages, Flashman lets on that his fame is a complete fluke and hoax, and that he is actually "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and, oh yes, a toady".

When "Mary" — about a contemporary Southern couple who essentially keep a slave — was produced at the Goodman Theater in Chicago last year, the critics were pretty direct, with one asking if the play wasn't "a complete and total hoax designed to see just how much hokum and bunkum today's theater audiences might be willing to tolerate".

Unfortunately, what's scientific fact to one person may be fiction to someone else, and if you don't believe me, just spend some time perusing websites which claim that global warming is a complete and total hoax.

Staffers created an elaborate would-be hoax, complete with a Twitter account, a dedicated website, and an effects-laden video featuring a Doc Brown impersonator, all of which feed into each other as one big, weird marketing gimmick for her 2016 presidential run.