Spoiled

  

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Spoiled

Definition: Spoiled

Spoiled

Adjective

1. Treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest childhood, he believed the world had been invented for his entertainment".

2. Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child".

3. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spoiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Spoiled

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Term applied to wine showing some evidence of spoilage. Source: European Union. (references)
 Term applied to a wine which has abnormal composition or organoleptic characteristics as a result of chemical, physical or microbiological processes. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Spoiled

Synonyms: bad (adj), coddled (adj), pampered (adj), spoilt (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Spoiled

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Favorite

Noun: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.

Prosperity

Made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune.

Satiety

Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix;Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Spoiled

English words defined with "spoiled": adoringbotched, bungledClub rootdamaged, deformity, destroyed, discolored, discoloured, disfiguration, disfigured, disfigurement, doting, drivingexcess, external, extraneousFagend, flyblown, fond, frivolouslymaggoty, Mammothreptnoticeableobtrusive, outside, overindulgencerebuilt, remodeledspoilage, Spoilfive, spoiling, spoilt, StickitundamagedWany. (references)
Specialty definitions using "spoiled": acetic etherBacillus stearothermophilusCarmeliteDELEGATEE270, EGG BREAKER, EGG CANDLER, ethylacetateFISH-BIN TENDERLABORER, PIE BAKERYoversPinabello, plus sheetsSarcenet Chidings, spoilsTARE WEIGHER. (references)
Etymologies containing "spoiled": Stickit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Spoiled

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Although he had everything his heart desired the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

You spoiled it, just like I spoiled you (Mommie Dearest; writing credit: Christina Crawford; Robert Getchell)

Which sister is this, the spoiled one or the one that bit her (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

You're spoiled. That's what you are, spoiled (Popeye; writing credit: Jules Feiffer; E.C. Segar)

The hell with your spoiled baby (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Lyrics

You were always spoiled with a thousand toys (19TH NERVOUS BREAKDOWN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Clever

Golf is a good walk spoiled. (references; author: Mark Twain)

What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoiled milk. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Spoiled Girl (1918)

Her Spoiled Boy (1912)

How Charlie's Game Was Spoiled (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Spoiled

DomainTitle

Books

  • Golf Is a Good Walk Spoiled (reference)

  • Golf: A Good Walk Spoiled (reference)

  • P.J. the Spoiled Bunny (Random House Pictureback) (reference)

  • Spoiled Rotten: Today's Children and How to Change Them (reference)

  • Two Spoiled Rotten Collies Live Here (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Spoiled

Computer Images:
Spoiled

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Photo Album: Spoiled

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Over-indulgence--a spoiled Thanksgiving. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dr. Dafoe says the Dionne quintuplets are badly spoiled : my friends, the good doctor really doesn't know what spoiled is!. Credit: Library of Congress.

One part of the program he doesn't want spoiled. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wheat field spoiled by grasshoppers plague near Beach, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Spoiled

AuthorQuotation

Eugene Field

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

Gene Brown

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Oscar Wilde

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Powell

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Spoiled

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

He was only to look, that he used them before they spoiled, else he took more than his share, and robbed others. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Spoiled

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

But he, he had spoiled my whole dress with the snow

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in the coming days

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spoiled

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Smell and taste alert us to fires, poisonous fumes, leaking gas, and spoiled food and beverages. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

They reported an unreliable supply of water and being fed spoiled food on occasion. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Spoiled

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

The teacher needs your help, because you raised a little monster who couldn't be more spoiled if he was an unrefrigerated crab meat po' boy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Spoiled

"Spoiled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 51.03% of the time. "Spoiled" is used about 341 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)51.03%17423,577
Lexical Verb (past tense)29.91%10232,309
Adjective (general or positive)18.18%6242,755
Noun (proper)0.88%3202,518
                    Total100.00%341N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Spoiled

Expressions using "spoiled": be spoiled be spoiled by rain become spoiled get spoiled spoiled child spoiled child of fortune spoiled darling. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "spoiled": spoiled-brat.

Ending with "spoiled": utterly-spoiled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spoiled

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

spoiled child

147

day spa spoiled

4

spoiled rotten

50

golf good spoiled walk

4

spoiled

37

spoiled meat

4

spoiled brat

18

spoiled sports

4

spoiled milk

10

chicken spoiled

4

spoiled food

10

rotten.com spoiled

3

angel rotten spoiled

9

girl spoiled

3

kid spoiled

8

ratten rattery spoiled

3

a good walk spoiled

8

pet rotten spoiled

2

good mark spoiled twain walk

6

spoiled teen

2

spoiled dog

6

princess spoiled

2

baby spoiled

5

spoiled teenager

2

kid rotten spoiled

5

spoiled yogurt

2

buffy rotten spoiled

4

drinking milk spoiled

2

juice spoiled

2
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Modern Translation: Spoiled

Language Translations for "spoiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bedorwe (addled, bad, rotten). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏خام (bad-smelling, fusty, rotten, stinking). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

损坏 (damaged, Damaging, spoilage, spoiling, spoilt), (bad). (various references)

   

Danish

  

forkælet, fordærvet (unsound), ødelagt. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verspild (wasted), bedorven (addled, bad, rotten). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

trodorlotita, malŝparita (wasted), fuŝita. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vahingoittunut (damaged, unsound), turmeltu, tärvelty, pilattu, pilaantunut (damaged, tainted decayed), pahentunut (unsound), huonontunut, ei terve (unsound). (various references)

   

French

  

gaté, gâté, altéré, abîmés, abîmée, abîmé (spoilt), abîmâmes, abîmèrent, abîma. (various references)

   

German

  

verdorben (addled, bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, debauched, depraved, foul, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, ruined, tainted, upset). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακομαθημένοσ, κανακάρης, χαλασμένος (broken, out of order), αλλοιωμένος. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"שתבש (be spoiled, come unstuck, go wrong), ל"שחת (be destroyed, be ruined, be spoiled, become corrupt), ל"פ'ם (be notched, be spoiled), לצאת לתרבות רע" (be corrupted, be perverted, be spoiled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tönkremegy (become foul, go bad, go bust, go to pot, go to the devil, go under, to become bankrupt, to bung, to fold up, to get spoiled, to go broke, to go bust, to go on the fritz, to go phut, to go pop, to go smash, to go to pot, to go to rack and ruin, to go to ruin, to go to the bad, to go to the devil, to go to the dogs, to smash, to spoil), megromlik (blew, blown, canker, deteriorate, go bad, go sour, to addle, to blow, to corrupt, to deteriorate, to get spoiled, to go bad, to go off, to go pot, to perish, to rot, to spoil, to taint, turn sour), elromlik (go phut, go wrong, to addle, to break down, to crap out, to get spoiled, to go bad, to go on the fritz, to go phut, to go wrong). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

dekraður. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

manja (attached, friendly, intimate), busuk (bad, low, putrescent, putrid, rotten), basi (bowl, fusty, reduction, stale, trivial), anja-anja (pampered), alem (pampered). (various references)

   

Italian

  

alterato(guasto) (unsound), alterato (adulterated, altered, changed). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

目茶苦茶 (absurd, excessive, messed up, unreasonable, wreaked), 滅茶苦茶 (absurd, excessive, messed up, unreasonable, wreaked), 形無し (loss of face, ruined), 台無し (mess, nothing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かたなし (loss of face, ruined), めちゃくちゃ (absurd, excessive, messed up, unreasonable, wreaked), いなし (mess, nothing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

버릇없게 기르" (spoilt). (various references)

   

Manx

  

millit (blown, corrupted, defaced, ruined, spoil, undone). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

bortskjemt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oiledspay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

estragado (damaged, dilapidated, rotten, spoilt, tainted, unsound), alterado (haggard, unsettled). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

портить испорченный (spoilt, vitiated). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

beuban (anything, anything mangled or spoiled). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

upropašćen (lost, washed up, wrecked), razmažen (spoon-fed), iskvaren (corrupted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mimado (babied, coaxing, daintily, indulged, pet), estropeado (blown, broken, broken down, crumpled, damaged, haywire, ruined, shop-soiled, shopworn, spoilt, torn), deteriorado (ropy), consentido (indulged), alterado (corrupted). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sjuk (ill, invalid, malady, shady, sick, unwell), förstörd (demolished, destroyed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

berbat olmuş (ruined, spoilt). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

zaяalanan, zaяa, harap (broken, depraved). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

moethlyd (pampered). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Spoiled

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 22, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintO gar kurioV krinei autou thn krisin kai rush shn asulon yuchn
Latin405VulgateQuia Dominus iudicabit causam eius et configet eos qui confixerint animam eius
Middle English1395WyclifFor the Lord shal deme the cause of hym, and he shal stike them, that stekeden the lif of hym.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Basic English1964OgdenFor the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Spoiled

LanguageProverbs Chapter 22, Verse 23
CebuanoKay si Jehova magalaban sa ilang katungod, Ug moagaw sa kinabuhi niadtong nangagaw kanila.
Chinese 耶 ' 華 必 為 他 辨 屈 . 搶 奪 他 的 、 耶 ' 華 必 奪 取 那 人 的 命 。
CroatianJer æe Jahve parbiti parbu njihovu i otet æe život onima koji ga njima otimlju.
Danishthi HERREN fører deres Sag og raner deres Ransmænds Liv.
DutchWant de HEERE zal hun twistzaak twisten, en Hij zal dengenen, die hen beroven, de ziel roven.
Finnishsillä Herra ajaa hänen asiansa ja riistää hänen riistäjiltään hengen.
FrenchCar l`Éternel défendra leur cause, Et il ôtera la vie ceux qui les auront dépouillés.
GermanDenn der HERR wird ihre Sache führen und wird ihre Untertreter untertreten.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSebab, TUHAN akan membela perkara mereka dan mencabut nyawa orang yang menindas mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKarena Tuhan juga akan membicarakan halnya serta membinasakan segala orang yang membinasakan mereka itu.
Italianperché il Signore difender la loro causa e spoglier della vita coloro che li hanno spogliati.
MaoriNo te mea ka tohea e Ihowa ta ratou tohe, ka pahuatia ano hoki e ia te wairua o te hunga e pahua ana i a ratou.
NorwegianFor Herren skal føre deres sak, og han skal ta deres liv som tar noget fra dem.
Portugueseporque o Senhor defenderá a sua causa em juízo, e aos que os roubam lhes tirará a vida.   
RumanianCqci Domnul le va apqra pricina lor, wi va despuia viaya celor ce -i despoaie. -
Russian ПФПНХ ЮФП зПУ П"Ш ЧУФХ ЙФУС Ч "ЕМП ЙИ Й ЙУИЙФЙФ "ХЫХ Х ЗТБ'ЙФЕМЕК ЙИ.
SpanishPorque Jehovah defenderá la causa de ellos y despojará al alma de quienes los despojan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Spoiled

Derivations

Words ending with "spoiled": despoiled, unspoiled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Spoiled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escoillee, espoiled, spiled, spoilted, spriled, Sproule, stoiled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Spoiled"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "spoiled" (pronounced spoy"ld)
5s p oy" l dunspoiled.
3-oy" l dboiled, broiled, coiled, embroiled, foiled, oiled, recoiled, roiled, soiled, toiled, uncoiled.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Spoiled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: despoil, diploes, dipoles.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-o-p-s"

-1 letter: diploe, dipole, dispel, lisped, oldies, pilose, poised, poleis, polies, siloed, sliped, sloped, soiled, spiled.

-2 letters: deils, delis, diols, dipso, doles, dopes, eidos, idles, idols, isled, lidos, lodes, loped, lopes, oiled, oldie, piled, piles, plied, plies, plods, poise, poled, poles, polis, posed, sidle, siped, slide, slipe, sloid, slope, soldi, soled, solei, solid, speil.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: depolish, despoils, diploses, displode, euploids, implodes, leporids, lopsided, pistoled, ploidies, polished, poolside, sepaloid.

 

+2 letters: clupeoids, despoiled, despoiler, dispeople, disploded, displodes, duopolies, ellipsoid, lepidotes, palinodes, pistolled, polarised, polypides, poolsides, spoliated, topsoiled, unspoiled, woodpiles.

 

+3 letters: aneuploids, apologised, depletions, depolished, depolishes, despoilers, despoiling, diploidies, diplomates, diplophase, diplotenes, discophile, dispeopled, dispeoples, disposable, ellipsoids, episodical, euploidies, haploidies, hexaploids, lopsidedly, misdevelop, overplaids, pediculous, pedologies, pedologist, pedophiles, petalodies, planetoids, podzolizes, polyamides, polypodies, psalmodies, repolished, ridgepoles, shoplifted, slipformed, sphenoidal, spheroidal, stockpiled, unpolished.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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