Synonyms for spoils
spoils

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1. List of paraphrases for "spoils":

   booties, rots, sludges, cuttings

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1. John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven":

   It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

2. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice:

   The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

3. Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marchionne:

   What Jaguar has done with the Lightweight [E-Type] cars is clever, but reinventing the 250 is a tough gig, and living off the spoils of the past is a bad habit to get into.

4. Sergei Chemezov:

   Look how many American investors are here, not to mention the Europeans, they understand that we have an enormous market. And whoever comes here first, they get all the spoils.

5. W. Somerset Maugham:

   The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.