Antonyms for spoiled
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : spoil |
| Phonetic Transcription : spɔɪl |
Definition of spoiled
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French espoillier "to strip, plunder," from Latin spoliare "to strip of clothing, rob," from spolium "armor stripped from an enemy, booty;" originally "skin stripped from a killed animal," from PIE *spol-yo-, perhaps from root *spel- "to split, to break off" (cf. Greek aspalon "skin, hide," spolas "flayed skin;" Lithuanian spaliai "shives of flax;" Old Church Slavonic rasplatiti "to cleave, split;" Middle Low German spalden, Old High German spaltan "to split;" Sanskrit sphatayati "splits").
- Sense of "to damage so as to render useless" is from 1560s; that of "to over-indulge" (a child, etc.) is from 1640s (implied in spoiled). Intransitive sense of "to go bad" is from 1690s. To be spoiling for (a fight, etc.) is from 1865, from notion that one will "spoil" if he doesn't get it. Spoil-sport attested from 1801.
- adj damaged
- adj overindulged
- She justly remarks that, since I saw it last, it is all spoiled into a great big cat.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- If only she had understood, and not spoiled, next morning, the effect of her words.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- He was a spoiled child of fortune, if you wish to have it so.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- "But I can't see——" Aggie began to argue with the petulance of a spoiled child.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The third act is "spoiled, by the characteristic Shakespearean language."
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- There could be no loitering; quick work was necessary, or a spoiled wheel was the result.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- Under the circumstances, she looked like a pretty, spoiled little schoolgirl.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- This very snow-storm, which has spoiled my skating, was packed up there.
- Extract from : « The Paradise of Children » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He did not want to risk her awakening to a spoiled life and disappointed hopes.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- She had become the spoiled darling, pouting at him in half-pretended vexation.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
Synonyms for spoiled
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