I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spoilt/spoiled child (= allowed to do or have whatever he or she wants, and behaving badly )
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He’s behaving like a spoilt child.
spoilt brat (= a spoiled and unpleasant child )
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Ben was a spoilt brat .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Rather like a spoilt child , he can force you into feeling that his survival depends on your constant presence and care.
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And you hounded him at work, wanting his attention all the time like a spoilt child .
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I have behaved like a spoilt child wanting its own way, she said to herself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After such a spoilt dreamy flight it is hard not to trample carelessly over the end of the night shift.
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And you hounded him at work, wanting his attention all the time like a spoilt child.
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But it is the derogatory, spoilt image which sticks as the group image.
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He was born when Brigitte was at the top, living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier.
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I had become spoilt and pampered.
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Rather like a spoilt child, he can force you into feeling that his survival depends on your constant presence and care.
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She wasn't a spoilt beauty with no brains, was she?
II.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be spoilt/spoiled for choice
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As the Empire player you are spoiled for choice.
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Often, we seem to be spoiled for choice and hampered, even paralysed, by our fear of the unknown.