Words similar to rip-off

Example sentences for: rip-off

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Hostess Rosie O'Donnell and a parade of non-theater celebrity presenters get the credit for the big audience, but critics pan O'Donnell's transparent rip-off of Billy Crystal's Oscars shtick.
Anyway, the "CW Watch" was a rip-off of a similar feature in the New Republic when I was the editor there.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the uncovering by state and FBI investigators of "a giant rip-off" of California's state-federal program providing health care to the poor.
Patients don't like periodontal treatment, so they suspect it's a rip-off.
But what's puzzling is the point of the rip-off.