spoilsome

comparative more spoilsome · superlative most spoilsome

1. Characterised by spoiling or ruin; ruinous

   My spoilsome sin is ever in front of my face.

   2005, Calvin Seerveld, Voicing God's Psalms

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   They muss our Monday washing up; on Tuesdays steal our tubs; a most distressful nuisance are these soilsome, spoilsome Blubs.

   1918, St. Nicholas, Volume 45, Part 2

   A childish (and Rousseau-ist) view of children as noble savages often is part of a belief that nature is a sweet garden and science and technology are spoilsome intrusions.

   1984, Gary Goshgarian, The Contemporary Reader from Little, Brown

   In my country, it's awful weather. And spoilsome weather.

   1985, Blanche McCord Harrison, Changes in infant feeding practices of Vietnamese refugees interpreted through qualitative data

   Back in the spoilsome comforts of Kodiak and about to fly south again, I trade friendly barbs with my skipper over the seven-day St. Matthew opening.

   1987, National Fisherman, volume 68