[
UK
/spˈɔɪlt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
blighted urban districts
a blighted rose -
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
a refrigerator full of spoilt food
bad meat -
having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
a spoiled child
How To Use spoilt In A Sentence
- Thousands of miles of unspoilt coastline, isolated and untouched lakes and pristine mountain ranges are there for the discovering.
- He's a spoilt brat and it's about time he learnt to behave properly.
- Hiking boots are obviously a much better idea for moving around in, but the trade off can be feet so cold and painful that your whole day can be spoilt.
- Not to mention the thawed, spoilt food in the freezer. The Sun
- But that hasn't deterred the parents of the spoilt brats. Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
- She is perceived as vain, spoilt and promiscuous.
- Jutting out into the northern Mediterranean, the Portofino headland is a piece of natural unspoilt beauty standing hand in hand with some pretty Italian architecture.
- We did, and on a day forecast as spoilt by scattered showers and cloud we were rewarded with an absolute pearler.
- It seems that I turn into a bolshy, opinionated and entirely spoilt six-year-old kid at moments like this.
