Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
- adj. Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
- adj. of a person Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- adj. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
Examples
“France, as the old Duke once said with great truth, has been already _under water several times, what could be spoiled has been spoiled_, what remains _is pretty solid_.”
“Those farms he'd bought in Kentucky and the sour experience there of having the title spoiled and then moving to Indiana, and he didn't prosper there -- I think these experiences, and also to some degree maybe the people he associated with, sapped Thomas 'ambition.”
The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America
“Bjarne Riis blasts what he calls the spoiled attitude among young pros coming through the ranks and says, without sacrifice, all the natural talent in the world will help you win.”
Must Reads: Wiggins: Tour ‘miserable,’ Boonen to debut in Qatar
“This was not, however, the case of Natura; and though he would doubtless have been what we call a spoiled child, had he been for any length of time permitted to do just what he pleased, yet the nurse being discharged, he fell again under the jurisdiction of his mother-in-law, who had now more excuse than ever for treating him with severity.”
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
“So "spoiled" is the perfect word Claudia, unless you can come up with something better.”
“What you consider "spoiled" is progress for the people who count - the people of these communities.”
“I do not believe helping people and treating them nice will spoil them, I certainly don't think that coming to Mexico and staying aloof from the locals so they don't get spoiled is being apart of their community.”
“The name spoiled her for him, just as the Jameson mouth spoiled her son for him.”
“Miss Beveridge had beautiful features, but the listless gloom of her expression spoiled what beauty she might still have possessed.”
“You'll get to deal with both the entitled spoiled brats AND the parents who raised them this way.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spoiled’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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The Secret Garden
sickly, fretful, toddle, cross, stammer, manor, slink, grind, disdain, imploringly, wring, wailing and 30 more...
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