SPOOFING Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

spoofing

verb

present participle of spoof

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 In theory, international law should prevent spoofing. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026 These anomalies are increasingly linked to GPS spoofing in regions experiencing geopolitical conflict. —

Anna Raymaker, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026 Jamming and spoofing also slowed marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a congested shipping lane that handles roughly 20% of the world’s oil and gas exports and where precise navigation is essential, Windward’s data showed. —

Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 6 Mar. 2026 There has been widespread GNSS spoofing and AIS manipulation, where tankers are digitally hijacked and tricked into displaying false coordinates that lead them into restricted territorial waters for seizure. —

Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 Later, the hacker even called Wenzler, spoofing PlayStation’s customer support number and impersonating a Sony fraud department representative. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026 This mash-up especially works as the musical develops a secondary theme, spoofing the iconography of the Broadway musical itself. —

Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026 Investigators determined the text had come through a voice over IP service capable of spoofing phone numbers. —

Michael Ruiz , Matt Finn, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026 Scammers are spoofing numbers to call customers and setting up fake websites that appear in Google searches. —

Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026

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And of course Burrs, whom Donica plays with titanic, Sweeney-esque feeling and force of baritone, is all the more self-hating and compromised, having made a career parodying himself.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
The cliffhanger of the previous season, which saw Lister impregnated by his female self from an alternate universe, is dismissed with a pre-episode text crawl parodying Star Wars, which irreverently moved way too fast to read.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2026