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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Ranjitkumar Sivakumar, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Jost kicked off the show by touching on the Oval Office confrontation, spoofed by the late-night show’s Cold Open earlier in the night.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
Marina Watts, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
But with that music cue, mixed with slo-motion and the absurdity of the repetition, the spoof morphed into a formalist art film.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Digital security tokens can be intercepted, hardware tokens can be stolen, and even biometrics can be spoofed.
—Ranjitkumar Sivakumar, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Jost kicked off the show by touching on the Oval Office confrontation, spoofed by the late-night show’s Cold Open earlier in the night.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
During the sketch, Kardashian, 44, sang along in the spoof of the Lawrence Welk Show with Fred Armisen as Welk and Will Ferrell as singer and actor Robert Goulet.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
But with that music cue, mixed with slo-motion and the absurdity of the repetition, the spoof morphed into a formalist art film.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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