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Deceit; Good natured ridicule.

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Usage examples (28)
  • It was the final couple of sentences which set me off on my spoofery.
  • "Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," Hutchinson has said.
  • This was not just another comic take off on a popular movie character, or even low brow spoofery or political punditry.
  • It would be hard to imagine a bigger, more obvious target for spoofery than bogus spiritual teachers, but Myers never aspires to satire.
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