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spoiling
adjective as in decaying
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adjective as in easy
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- accommodating
- amenable
- benign
- biddable
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- compliant
- condoning
- deceivable
- deludable
- dupable
- easygoing
- excusing
- exploitable
- fleeceable
- forbearing
- forgiving
- gentle
- gullible
- humoring
- indulgent
- kindly
- lax
- lenient
- liberal
- light
- merciful
- mild
- moderate
- mollycoddling
- naive
- pampering
- pardoning
- submissive
- susceptible
- sympathetic
- temperate
- tractable
- trusting
- unburdensome
- unoppressive
- unsuspicious
adjective as in lenient
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- allowing
- amiable
- assuaging
- assuasive
- being big
- benignant
- charitable
- clement
- complaisant
- condoning
- easy
- easygoing
- emollient
- excusing
- favoring
- forbearing
- gentle
- going easy on
- good-natured
- humoring
- kind
- kindly
- letting
- live with
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- mollycoddling
- obliging
- pampering
- pardoning
- permitting
- soft
- soft-shell
- softhearted
- sparing
- tender
- yielding
noun as in destroying
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noun as in deterioration
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noun as in detriment
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noun as in erosion
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noun as in indulgence
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noun as in overindulgence
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Example Sentences
Smerilli wanted to pack many concepts into this one theme but without spoiling “the sense of ambiguity that is in the script,” he says.
The recipients included an initiative that saved a rare antelope species from extinction and a Kenyan company that uses solar powered fridges to stop harvested crops spoiling.
Both shortstops are key cogs on teams eyeing a World Series title and perhaps spoiling the Dodgers’ dreams along the way.
“We live off selling products we grow. Now my produce is spoiling. And there is no way to take them to the city.”
"But there are a few bad apples that are going in and spoiling it for everyone."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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