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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
We are a nation in which a few rotten apples are spoiling different barrels.
His advice is simple: stop spoiling Christmas for the rest of us.
At the risk of spoiling the end of the movie for readers, but the title is accurate—Tim paints a Vermeer.
We love our nieces and nephews and we both enjoy spending time with them and spoiling them.
Despite the inaugural pomp and partying scheduled for today, this President Obama appears to be spoiling for a fight.
I was spoiled as a boy, and my Maggie carried on the spoiling, by never letting me feel its effects.
He thought, in fact, that Daphne was spoiling the dear nondescript old place, and he knew that the neighbourhood thought so too.
"Eric has a mind to pay them for nigh spoiling a wedding voyage," quoth our Norseman.
It certainly felt warm enough to the men on deck, who were "spoiling for a fight," when the lookout aloft announced two sails.
But I am not going to be hoodwinked by the thirty thousand francs to be made by spoiling good canvas.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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