spoilful

English

Etymology

From spoil +‎ -ful.

Adjective

spoilful (comparative more spoilful, superlative most spoilful)

1. (obsolete) Destructive, pillaging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established […]