spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
Verb
spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Noun
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
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Lauren Coates, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Additionally, set up email authentication based on the domain using DMARC, SPF and DKIM protocols to prevent email spoofing and protect a brand’s reputation against cyber threats.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Of course, everybody loves a good spoof of actorly vanity.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Viewers who fell for Joe along the way found that impulse questioned, if not spoofed, many times throughout the show’s run, but definitively so in Joe’s final voiceover.
—Lauren Coates, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Additionally, set up email authentication based on the domain using DMARC, SPF and DKIM protocols to prevent email spoofing and protect a brand’s reputation against cyber threats.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
The MacGruber writer-director recalled his first meeting with the Top Secret star to discuss his role as the villainous Dieter Von Cunth in the 2010 action spoof.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Of course, everybody loves a good spoof of actorly vanity.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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