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hoaxical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhəʊks.ɪkl̩/ (UK)

Etymology

From hoax + -ical.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
   • Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings. 1992, Rochard Kopley, editor, Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
   • XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...] 1819 February, William Wastle Of That Ilk, Esquire, “The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or The Fate of the Brauns”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume IV, number XXIII, William Blackwood, page 564:
   • A hoaxical looking article, under the above caption, is going the rounds and represents that successful experiments on this subject have been recently made at Berlin. 1846 September 26, “Casting Iron Cannon by a galvanic Process”, in Rufus Porter, editor, Scientific American, volume 2, number 1, Munn & Company, page 33:

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