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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hate to spoil" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to express regret or to apologize for doing something that is not welcomed by the other person. For example: "I hate to spoil your plans, but I can't make it to the party this weekend."
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"I hate to spoil a good story," Henry says with a relaxed smile.
"I hate to spoil your porridge, but your son has a blonde in his room".
But I'd hate to spoil her guilty secret' Sebastian Horsley May it comfort you to know that exactly the same thing has happened to me.
I hate to spoil the fun, but is it really appropriate to throw all these incredibly numerous and varied countries, not to mention their women, into one big bouillabaisse called "the East"?
We hate to spoil your holiday weekend, but an alarming new survey of American history knowledge 2/3 released just days before Independence Day, no less 2/3 -- suggests that the nation is in desperate need of summer school.
(In the Hillary Clinton Travelgate case, the independent counsel Robert Ray concluded that her sworn testimony was "factually false," but he declined to prosecute because he didn't think a jury would convict the first lady of perjury. Prosecutors hate to spoil their records).
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He parts his hair in the middle and tints it black; he wears bow ties and wash-leather gloves, which he hates to spoil with anything as messy as blood, but needs must, because Rakes is a psychopath.
I don't want to spoil anything, but I hated the direction his character went in.
Hate arises from envy as well, from the need to spoil goodness in others.
"The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people won't want to touch it," the opposition activist Leonid Volkov told me.
"I love to spoil them".
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