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Webster 1913 Edition


Spoilful

Spoil′ful

(spoil′fụl)
,
Adj.
Wasteful; rapacious.
[Poetic]

Webster 1828 Edition


Spoilful

SPOILFUL

,
Adj.
Wasteful; rapacious. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


spoilful

spoilful

English

Adjective

spoilful (comparative more spoilful, superlative most spoilful)

  1. (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 [...].