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spoilsome

spoilsome adjective: characterised by spoiling or ruin; ruinous.

Adjective

spoilsome (comparative more spoilsome, superlative most spoilsome)

  1. Characterised by spoiling or ruin; ruinous
    • They muss our Monday washing up; on Tuesdays steal our tubs; a most distressful nuisance are these soilsome, spoilsome Blubs.1918, St. Nicholas, Volume 45, Part 2
    • A childish (and Rousseau-ist) view of children as noble savages often is part of a belief that nature is a sweet garden and science and technology are spoilsome intrusions.1984, Gary Goshgarian, The Contemporary Reader from Little, Brown

Examples of spoilsome in a sentence

  • Back in the spoilsome comforts of Kodiak and about to fly south again, I trade friendly barbs with my skipper over the seven-day St.1987, National Fisherman, volume 68:
  • My spoilsome sin is ever in front of my face.2005, Calvin Seerveld, Voicing God's Psalms:

Forms of spoilsome

comparativemore spoilsome
superlativemost spoilsome

Origin of spoilsome

From spoil + -some.

Questions about spoilsome

What does spoilsome mean?
Spoilsome means characterised by spoiling or ruin; ruinous.
How do you use spoilsome in a sentence?
Back in the spoilsome comforts of Kodiak and about to fly south again, I trade friendly barbs with my skipper over the seven-day St.
What part of speech is spoilsome?
Spoilsome is an adjective.

Words near spoilsome in the dictionary

  1. spoils the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  2. spoilsman
  3. spoilsmen
  4. spoilsmonger
  5. spoilsmongers
  6. spoilsome
  7. spoilsport
  8. spoilsportism
  9. spoilsports
  10. spoilt
  11. spoilt for choice

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