spoilful

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adjective

Destructive, pillaging.

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Meanings

adjectivespoilful (comparative more spoilful, superlative most spoilful)

comparative more spoilful · superlative most spoilful

  1. obsoleteDestructive, pillaging.

    […] hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From spoil + -ful.

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APA

spoilful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoilful

MLA

“spoilful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoilful. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spoilful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoilful.

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