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as in parodying
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 tricking
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 spoofing
Commercial drones are also vulnerable to spoofing, signal jamming and man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Srinivas Shekar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have extensively used GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt operations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
He’s been seen spoofing the Kardashians, trying out the handsome face filter and enjoying dinner with the fam in Frankie’s funny videos.
—Emy Lacroix, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Part of the promotional campaign for The Naked Gun legacy-sequel was a trailer spoofing charity promotional videos, as star Liam Needson pleaded with viewers to buy a ticket and help save the entire business of movie comedies.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Srinivas Shekar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have extensively used GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt operations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
He’s been seen spoofing the Kardashians, trying out the handsome face filter and enjoying dinner with the fam in Frankie’s funny videos.
—Emy Lacroix, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Part of the promotional campaign for The Naked Gun legacy-sequel was a trailer spoofing charity promotional videos, as star Liam Needson pleaded with viewers to buy a ticket and help save the entire business of movie comedies.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoofing
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What To Know The Democratic governor of California has recently taken on a new strategy to oppose Trump—parodying the president's brash social media style to mock him.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Though the movie is accessible to new fans, there are plenty of winks and nods for diehards who can understand what might seem, to the uninitiated, like cheesy moments—a cringeworthy English rap verse, a scene parodying the product placement in K-dramas—as self-aware jokes.—
Yvonne Kim,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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What does work is tricking her into pressing a button that knocks her out.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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While the Phantom Hacker attack is designed specifically to drain your bank accounts, there are plenty of variants relying on tricking you into installing dangerous software that either gives an attacker a view of your device or hijacks it completely.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The clarinet and piano played musical lines imitating birds.—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In the image, the president is also backdropped by a city beach covered with fire and smoke, seemingly imitating an active war zone.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Stop fooling yourself and listen.—
Richard B. Williams,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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And tech companies must do far more in the design of AI systems to prevent people fooling themselves into thinking these systems are conscious beings.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
26 Aug. 2025
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The key to his performance is empathy — Early resists mocking Maddie or her struggles at every turn.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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This is all on top of the late-night TV and social media posts mocking him, countless Democrats campaigning against him, and endless news and opinion articles calling him everything from a felon to a rapist to a threat to democracy to Hitler.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
6 Sep. 2025
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Looks can be deceiving, Cali said.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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The lexicon of the wine world can be deceiving.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Spoofing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoofing. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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