Feign vs Hoax - What's the difference?
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To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
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To hide or conceal.
To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam)
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
Feign is a related term of hoax.
As verbs the difference between feign and hoax
is that feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit while hoax is to deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated (scam).As a noun hoax is
anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.feign
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Verb
(en verb)- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.