SPOOFED Synonyms: 128 Similar and Opposite Words

spoofed

verb

past tense of spoof

as in parodied

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

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as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter

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Recent Examples of spoofed Candyman, the 1992 movie starring the late Tony Todd as the titular character, was spoofed when Shorty stood in front of a mirror and chanted Candyman over and over again to try to reach the character. —

Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 Phone numbers, email addresses, and websites can all be spoofed to appear legitimate. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 June 2026 When signals are jammed or spoofed, aircraft lose the situational awareness that modern operations assume as given. —

Greg Ombach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 The conflict in Ukraine has demonstrated how rapidly drones can become blind, jammed, spoofed, or disconnected. —

Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026 The chip is designed to keep working when GPS is jammed or spoofed, a growing concern in both defense and commercial settings. —

Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026 According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, reported by Bleeping Computer, hackers have been targeting these BPOs, or business process outsourcing companies, to direct employees and customers to spoofed single sign-on webpages and steal their credentials. —

Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026 Brooks first confirmed the Spaceballs sequel in 2025 with a teaser that further spoofed Star Wars‘s opening scrawls. —

Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2026 Autonomous operation means a drone isn’t being flown by a remote pilot, and therefore there’s no communications link to that pilot that can be severed or spoofed, rendering the drone useless. —

IEEE Spectrum, 24 Mar. 2026

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Later that year, it was parodied by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live and referenced by Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026
Among the other films parodied in the new Scary Movie are Weapons, Longlegs, The Substance and KPop Demon Hunters.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026