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View definitions for spoiled

spoiled

adjective as in damaged

Strongest match

Weak match

adjective as in overindulged

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If you, like me, have a spoiled, lazy dog that enjoys cheese flavoured treats, the fact that your pet's ancestors were wild predators can seem unfathomable.

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The president of the United States acts like a spoiled first grader who thinks he’s a king.

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He urged residents to buy generators and said the utility doesn’t reimburse customers for spoiled food and other losses if it believes the blackouts were required by “an act of God.”

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Mr. Deneen views the American Founding as a set of liberal ideas, influenced by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, that gave us the devil-may-care economics that has ultimately spoiled the country.

“You young cows are spoiled rotten,” she said.

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