Words similar to spoof
Example sentences for: spoof
How can you use “spoof” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The last-named book is largely a spoof on linguistic pedantry, and I fear that Saussy III has been drawn in.
When last season began, it looked like The Sopranos was a comedy, too--a spoof about a mobster with spoiled, nagging children and mother problems who goes to see a shrink.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
(Click here for its witless Slate spoof.)
Curtis is ingenious in his slapstick farce and spoof mode, less assured when the emotional ante is upped.
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