Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax.
1819, William Wastle Of That Ilk, Esquire, The Mad Banker of Amsterdam; or The Fate of the Brauns, XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,...
1846-09-26, Casting Iron Cannon by a galvanic Process, 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.
1992, Poe's Pym: Critical Explorations, Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings.
