Significados de cruel hoax em inglês

When I ask him about it, he calls our austerity economics "a cruel hoax".

These people, whose camp-fire glowed so brazenly against the opposite cliff, had for purely mercenary motives committed a cruel hoax.

Yes, that must be the true explanation; or was it possible that some one was attempting a cruel hoax upon him?

The settlement is "a cruel hoax" and among "the most one-sided and unfair class settlements in history," the filing said.

And it was a cruel hoax, because people go through their whole lives and they don't get that to happen to them.

She had looked through all the directories and street guides and knew at last that she had been the victim of a cruel hoax.

If there were right ones; if it wasn't all a cruel hoax by which Jareth tormented her with the illusion that Toby could be rescued.

A beautiful, cruel hoax!...

But the government has rejected key elements of the Hanson bill, with the Nationals MP David Littleproud calling minimum gate prices a " cruel hoax".

Sadly, many believe this was one of many cruel hoaxes perpetrated on the unfortunate poet.

"Is it possible that you have lent yourself to some cruel hoax, monsieur?" Montriveau exclaimed.

"I thought it was a cruel hoax," I said.