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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Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Ships routinely turn off their location trackers, use spoofing to falsify positions and sail under false flags.
—Adina Renner, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
That movie was an instant cult classic, a terrific spoof of modern-day music celebrity that was well received by critics.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Those will give opposing fans the opportunity to spoof New England's coach and the team by extension about the situation.
—Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Ships routinely turn off their location trackers, use spoofing to falsify positions and sail under false flags.
—Adina Renner, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
Rather than focusing on the conspiracy theories Jones espoused, the new InfoWars will build its comedic base off a spoof of the old site’s predatory snake oil rackets.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
That movie was an instant cult classic, a terrific spoof of modern-day music celebrity that was well received by critics.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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