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
• simulating
• satirizing
• sending up
• performing
• playing
• travestying
• lampooning
• pretending
• reproducing
• aping
• deriding
• replicating
• duplicating
• counterfeiting
• parroting
• feigning
• acting
• jibing
• gibing
• monkeying
• faking
• enhancing
• stretching
• impersonating
• personating
• shamming
• exaggerating
• padding
• copycatting
• dissembling
• embellishing
• embroidering
• amplifying
• expanding
• pasquinading
• 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
• leading one up the garden path
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• pulling one's leg
• defrauding
• swindling
• leading one down the garden path
• sticking
• fleecing
• chiseling
• chiselling
• 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