spoiled

How to use spoiled in a sentence

Where there is no hedge, the possession shall be spoiled: and where there is no wife, he mourneth that is in want.

But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Entrusted with sixty thousand men with orders to make a vast turning movement, his timidity spoiled the Emperor's careful plans.

He would never suffer that fine crop of hay to be spoiled; and father, with no one here to help him to bring it in.

He has been with me to see old Mrs. Robins, and she made so much of him, that if I take him again he'll be regularly spoiled.

Many instruments have had the sound holes spoiled and the surface of the wood inside gored by unskilful tampering with the post.

And now that you have made him suffer unjustly, and spoiled all life held for me, the judgment of God is upon you.

But in spite of these talents the Marshal's actual record as a soldier is spoiled by his defects of character.

They were pert and spoiled, untidy and noisy, although handsome and highly bred of feature.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

I was vexed that the woman of the party wore a dress evidently of French fashion: it spoiled the unity of the groupe.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985