spoofery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spoofery
Example Sentences
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In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Bell plays it straight in the opening episodes and escalates the lunacy as the plot progresses, trusting the viewer to find the spoofery in details.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
The spouses deal resignedly with the quirks of home, synagogue and community life, which are portrayed in scenes that range distractedly in various directions, often in a mode of loving spoofery.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
And then there's the Chris Morris/Armando Iannucci/Steve Coogan stable of satirical spoofery.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012
It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
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