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spoof

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of spoof

a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect
  • many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
Synonyms of spoof

burlesque, caricature, parody, put-on, rib, send-up, takeoff, travesty
Words Related to spoof

lampoon, mockery, satire

comedy, farce, humor, sketch, slapstick, squib

distortion, exaggeration

imitation, impersonation, mimicking

spoof

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of spoof

1 to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of
  • spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
Synonyms of spoof

burlesque, caricature, do, imitate, mimic, mock, parody, send up, travesty
Words Related to spoof

lampoon, pasquinade, satirize

deride, gibe (or jibe), ridicule

ape, copycat, monkey, parrot

duplicate, emulate, replicate, reproduce

act, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pretend, sham, simulate

elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, play up, stretch

amplify, enhance, enlarge (on or upon), expand, flesh (out), overdraw, overstate, put on

mime, pantomime

impersonate, perform, personate, play
2 to cause to believe what is untrue
  • the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Synonyms of spoof

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick
Words Related to spoof

kid, put on, tease

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle
Phrases Synonymous with spoof

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
Near Antonyms of spoof

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion
Antonyms of spoof

undeceive

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