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spoilful

spoilful adjective: destructive, pillaging.

Adjective

spoilful (comparative more spoilful, superlative most spoilful)

  1. (obsolete) Destructive, pillaging.
    • […] hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of spoilful

comparativemore spoilful
superlativemost spoilful

Origin of spoilful

From spoil + -ful.

Questions about spoilful

What does spoilful mean?
Spoilful means destructive, pillaging.
What part of speech is spoilful?
Spoilful is an adjective.

Words near spoilful in the dictionary

  1. spoilerwhores
  2. spoilery
  3. spoilest
  4. spoileth
  5. spoilfive
  6. spoilful
  7. spoilin'
  8. spoiling
  9. spoiling for a fight
  10. spoiling somebody rotten
  11. spoiling someone rotten

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