spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
Verb
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
Noun
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Ariana Grande spoofed Mariah Carey‘s holiday classic during her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2025
Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
Bleecker Street’s British period spoof Fackham Hall opened to $620k at 1,112 locations.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
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Verb
This helps prevent criminals from hijacking phone numbers or spoofing calls and texts.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
Ariana Grande spoofed Mariah Carey‘s holiday classic during her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
What’s Upstairs at the Downstairs is always a patchwork of mild satire, blatant spoofs, witty music, local jokes.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
Bleecker Street’s British period spoof Fackham Hall opened to $620k at 1,112 locations.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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