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spoilless

spoilless adjective: without spoils or plunder.

Adjective

spoilless (not comparable)

  1. Without spoils or plunder.
    • Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129
    • The absence of Kallisto and the spoilless return from the hunt go hand-in-hand, and they are elegantly combined with the return of Apollo to Leto.2021, Renaud Gagné, Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, page 166

Origin of spoilless

From spoil + -less.

Questions about spoilless

What does spoilless mean?
Spoilless means without spoils or plunder.
What part of speech is spoilless?
Spoilless is an adjective.

Words near spoilless in the dictionary

  1. spoiling somebody rotten
  2. spoiling someone rotten
  3. spoiling the market
  4. spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  5. spoilings
  6. spoilless
  7. spoils
  8. spoils of war
  9. spoils somebody rotten
  10. spoils someone rotten
  11. spoils system

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