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 Its proprietary signal incorporates a dynamic cryptographic watermark intended to protect users against spoofing. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 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 For its upcoming Los Angeles venue, experiential art firm Meow Wolf will focus on the art of storytelling, with a specific eye toward spoofing our city’s moviemaking magic. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 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 The Iran war has led to sustained spoofing across the Persian Gulf. — Zak Kassas, The Conversation, 23 June 2026

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The popular national chain of gas stations and convenience stores agreed to settle a lawsuit with an oddities store outside Winter Park earlier this year over a collection of merchandise parodying the company’s iconic, bucktoothed logo.

— Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026
The chatbot would then produce a snide response parodying Chan.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of parodying

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Mistruths, false claims, scams, and other deceptive efforts are tricking people into thinking that a watermark removal app will do wonders, whereas the reality is that the results are at best half-mixed or aimed to cause damage.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
ClickFix works by tricking you into performing an action on your computer that stealthily downloads and installs malware.

— Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

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In the limited series, the cast attends a fan convention where they get caught up in a dangerous life-imitating-art situation — a premise drawing comparisons to the beloved sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026
Krasner warned potential copycats who were thinking of imitating Hughes' behavior.

— Kelsie Cairns , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of imitating

Verb

Anybody hoping that a Netanyahu defeat in October and the emergence of a less controversial successor will reset the table is likely fooling themselves.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Throughout all the commotion, Romelu Lukaku acted as decoy, holding on to the ball, fooling everyone, including the TV producer, who pulled up a graphic showing his recent penalty record.

— Geir Jordet, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of fooling

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These included Mao Zedong of China and Kim Il Sung of North Korea, as well as one mocking Ho Chi Minh, the father of Vietnam’s communist revolution.

— Sopheng Cheang, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
On Douban, a popular Chinese movie-review platform, viewers piled on with mocking and bewildered comments.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of mocking

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Paul has long accused Fauci of deceiving Americans about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 July 2026
The ensuing investigation ultimately revealed that Angela had framed Hadley and uncovered evidence of her long history of deceiving people to gain sympathy.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026

Definition of deceiving

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