spoilt
Americanverb
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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 child of fortune, everything fits together to ensure your greatness.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
"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
Spoilt it, if you please, when he had done a beautiful piece of carving on it!
From The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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