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Examples of spoof in a Sentence
spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Recent Examples of spoof from the Web
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From giving national speeches to spoofing notable figures like NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch, nothing seems to faze the junior.
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After an Irish photographer sold a photo of a potato in 2015 for $1 million, Autrey came up with a series of photos featuring potatoes spoofing that sale.
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Sign up for a $3 per month subscription, and the app blocks over 100,000 robocalls and telemarketers—even the ones that try to fool you by spoofing their numbers.
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This time, he was mixed into a re-creation of the shocking finale of ABC’s reality show The Bachelor, spoofing Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s widely condemned, on-camera jilting of his fiancée Becca Kufrin.
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Later that summer, Lawrence Bommer wrote a slightly longer and more descriptive review of their act: When not spoofing channel surfing (a too frequent target), the Two White Guys' skits are decidedly better than the boob tube.
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The attacks once again underscore the public nuisance that results from service providers that still permit UDP packets to be spoofed to falsify the true sender.
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David Harbour, of Netflix’s Stranger Things, spoofed everyone else’s ads in a series of clever spots for Tide.
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From his cubicle, Morris made an editing tweak on the halftime segment, Kitt-ENSYNC, spoofing halftime-performer Justin Timberlake's former band, 'N Sync.
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Origin and Etymology of spoof
Spoof, a hoaxing game invented by Arthur Roberts †1933 English comedian
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: 1889
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Synonyms
bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gull, have, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snow, string along, take in, trick;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask;
Related Words
bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle;
Phrases
do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes;
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
Recent Examples of spoof from the Web
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The hoax was originated by a spoof website that said the actor fell off a cliff while filming a movie in New Zealand.
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Any series that looks and feels, at least 50 percent of the time, like a spoof is already in a pretty bad spot.
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The coming decades—the 21st-century’s ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s—have the potential to be one long, unbroken, recut spoof in which everything in Avatar farts while Keyboard Cat plays eerily in the background.
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In the spoof, a male bunny marries another male bunny over the objections of a stink bug judge who has a resemblance to Pence.
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In the spoof, a male bunny marries another male bunny over the objections of a stink bug judge who has a resemblance to Pence.
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The spoof should bring the rapper his highest-charting Hot 100 hit.
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Gonzales said his camp had nothing to do with the spoof calls on Election Day and he was appalled that someone would try to anger voters.
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Oliver's spoof of a new picture book by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence was No. 1 on Amazon.com and out of stock as of midday Monday.
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First Known Use of spoof
1889
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Definition of spoof for English Language Learners
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: a humorous movie, book, play, etc., that copies something in a silly and exaggerated way
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