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Webster 1913 Edition
Spoilful
Spoil′ful
(spoil′fụl)
, Adj.
Wasteful; rapacious.
[Poetic]
Webster 1828 Edition
Spoilful
SPOILFUL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
spoilful
spoilful
English
Adjective
spoilful (comparative more spoilful, superlative most spoilful)
- (obsolete) Destructive, pillaging.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:
- hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x: