spoiled
IPA: spˈɔɪɫd
adjective
- (of food) That has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
- (of a person) The state of being heavily pampered.
- (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
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Examples of "spoiled" in Sentences
- The fruit was spoiled and fetid.
- The hot weather spoiled the meat.
- She is the cutest but probably the most spoiled.
- It has the egotism and petulance of a spoiled child.
- So "spoiled" is the perfect word Claudia, unless you can come up with something better.
- 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_.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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