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| Main Entry: |
spoof
 [spoof] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, mockery |
| Synonyms: | bluff, bon mot, burlesque, caricature, cheat, deceit, deception, fake, flim-flam, game, hoax, imposture, jest, joke, lampoon, parody, phony, prank, put-on, quip, satire, sell, send-up, sham, take-off, travesty, trickery, wisecrack |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, baloney, bamboozlement, bill of goods, bunco, chicanery, con, con game, cover up, cozening, deceit, deception, dirty pool, dirty trick, dodge, double-dealing, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky, hoax, hoaxing, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, jive, plant, put-on, racket, rip-off, run around, scam, sell, shady deal, sham, shell game, snow job, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particular type of trick, misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears, deception, dirty trick, dirty work, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sellout, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors, snow job, soft soap, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindle, trick, whitewash, wile |
Example Sentences
- Either the site is a spoof or someone is seeing things.
- Invading aliens seek to control the minds of viewers at a sci-fi film festival in this monster spoof.
- The spoof uses similar pill packaging, actors and even the same pink chairs, sneakers and yoga mats depicted in the real ad.
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool someone |
| Synonyms: | baffle, bamboozle*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust*, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off, rook, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
| Synonyms: | actor, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, faker, flimflam, forgery, four-flusher, fraud, gold brick, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, junque, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, put-on, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Antonyms: | original, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act, sham, simulate, spoof |
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick, mislead |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, bluff, cheat, chicane, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, fake out, flimflam, fox*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, jive, juke, kid, lead on, make believe, outfox, play a trick on, play-act, pretend, put on, put one over on, scam*, snow*, spoof, suck in, take in*, trifle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cock-and-bull story, con game, con*, crock, deceit, deception, dodge, fabrication, fake, falsification, fast one, fast shuffle, fib, flimflam, fraud, gimmick, gyp, hooey, humbug, hustle, imposture, joke, lie, practical joke, prank, put-on, racket, ruse, scam, sell, shift, snow job, spoof, sting, swindle, whopper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | humbug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax |
| Synonyms: | con game, con*, deceit, fast one, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hustle, prank, put-on, scam, snow job, spoof, sting, swindle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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