hoaxy

Adjective

hoaxy (comparative hoaxier, superlative hoaxiest)

1. (informal) Resembling 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...
   • 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