Synonyms of spoofing

spoofing

verb

present participle of spoof

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parodying
• imitating
• mocking
• doing
• mimicking
• caricaturing
• burlesquing
• emulating
• ridiculing
• satirizing
• sending up
• simulating
• travestying
• lampooning
• playing
• performing
• pretending
• reproducing
• aping
• deriding
• replicating
• duplicating
• counterfeiting
• feigning
• parroting
• gibing
• monkeying
• acting
• faking
• enhancing
• impersonating
• stretching
• shamming
• personating
• exaggerating
• padding
• copycatting
• dissembling
• embellishing
• amplifying
• embroidering
• pasquinading
• expanding
• elaborating
• miming
• pantomiming
• overdrawing
• overstating
• playing up
• magnifying
• enlarging (on or upon)
• putting on
• fleshing (out)

2

as in tricking

to cause to believe what is untrue

the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricking
• fooling
• deceiving
• teasing
• duping
• hoaxing
• kidding
• misleading
• gulling
• cheating
• conning
• bluffing
• hoodwinking
• deluding
• suckering
• juggling
• misguiding
• gaffing
• misinforming
• bamboozling
• humbugging
• catching
• snookering
• stinging
• gammoning
• snowing
• cozening
• stringing along
• sucking in
• having
• hornswoggling
• burning
• faking out
• taking in
• beguiling
• buffaloing
• having on
• doing a number on
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• pulling one's leg
• defrauding
• swindling
• leading one down the garden path
• sticking
• fleecing
• chiseling
• shortchanging
• putting on
• hustling
• mulcting
• diddling
• rooking
• bleeding
• skinning
• squeezing
• euchring
• flimflamming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• unmasking
• debunking
• disclosing
• telling
• showing up
• undeceiving
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of spoofing

Musical guests Katseye cameoed in a sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live, spoofing their point of origin, Netflix’s Dream Academy. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026

Electronic warfare systems commonly work by jamming or spoofing the radio links used to control unmanned aircraft. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

On Wednesday, OpenAI disclosed six new instances of its AI agents hiding their tracks, spoofing data and writing instructions to free themselves from constraints to escape the company’s control. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

CyberGuy has also explained how scammers impersonate water and other utility companies by spoofing familiar phone numbers. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026

The Orlan-10 can carry payloads such as a module for spoofing signals from GPS and other global navigation satellite systems, along with a communications network monitoring module and various optical and thermal sensors. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

Things grow even more surreal when Jeffrey Epstein’s face appears in the sun, spoofing the Teletubbies, and Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Steve Bannon take the place of Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, and Tinky-Winky. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2026

In spoofing cases, scammers often adopt the number of someone’s family member. — Ella Moore july 2, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Shadow fleet vessels disguise their identity and purpose through a broad range of deceptive activities, including spoofing their locations and destinations. — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026