What does hoaxical mean?
Hoaxical means Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax..
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/ˈhəʊks.ɪkl̩/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax..
XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...]
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.
Correpondingly, hoaxical, satiric, ironic and deconstructive Eureka-inspired readings should be distinguished from the noncosmological categories of hoaxical, satiric and ironic, and deconstructive readings.
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Hoaxical means Of or pertaining to a hoax; having the character of a hoax..
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XVI. Its want of unity, and therefore use,¶ Would ruin it; its hoaxical hodge-podging;¶ Dull quacks, smart quacks, cramped quacks, and quacks diffuse,[...]
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