spoilt
Americanverb
verb
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Spoilt for choice we went with this mute swan from Alison Brown to represent the seven swans-a-swimming.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2013
Spoilt ballots count for around 6% of the total votes cast in the in the 2010 election.
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2013
Spoilt in every possible way that man can invent.
From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel
It may be all my love went wrong— A scribe's work writ awry and blurred, Scrawled after the blind evensong— Spoilt music with no perfect word.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
"Spoilt darlings," one Scottish nurse in Paris says about them, "but who could help spoiling them?"
From Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters by Kilpatrick, James Alexander
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