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Meanings of spoilt child in English

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Usage of spoilt child in English
1
She was, in the full meaning of the term, a spoilt child.
International Short Stories: French
2
She was behaving just like a little girl, like a spoilt child.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
3
The latter had the look of a spoilt child who is in disgrace.
The Tempting of Tavernake
4
The spoilt child of London was paying the penalty of popularity.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 / Little J...
5
The fashionable world was tired of its spoilt child, and he of it.
Byron
6
But, all the same, it was not the life of a spoilt child.
The Longest Journey
7
She stamped her foot with the petulance of a spoilt child.
The Great Secret
8
You always were a spoilt child wanting the toys Charles and I had.
The spurned viscountess
9
The years followed each other-andI was Fortune's spoilt child still.
The Guilty River
10
She had been a spoilt child, she had grown into a spoilt woman.
The Tempting of Tavernake
11
One spoilt child beats the table; another whips the sea.
Emile
12
She was the daughter of the regimental sergeant-major, and had been a spoilt child.
The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
13
Perhaps he's not worth having after all; and the spoilt child turned pettishly away.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
14
I am no spoilt child, whatever the abbé may say.
En Route
15
Show Fred that he is wholly wrong in likening you to that spoilt child.
Gritli's Children
16
She shrugged her shoulders and pouted like a spoilt child.
Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
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