Someone who spoils the pleasure of others.
1 It's hard for me, too; I don't want to be the killjoy .
2 A year or two at most. Saying so, Grigori felt like a killjoy .
3 He did not intend any longer to play the part of a killjoy .
4 Anxious, haggard, greedy, I stood among them like a veritable killjoy .
5 I must not make myself a killjoy in the family.
6 A killjoy , in the very worst sense of the word.
7 What kind of a miserable killjoy could deny such harmless buzz to a child?
8 Only a po-faced killjoy would fine him for giving so much pleasure to so many.
9 Don't be such a killjoy ; take a wild guess.
10 I'll not stand for it, you darned old killjoy .
11 But who wants to be a miserable old killjoy at this time of the year?
12 By the time George Eliot was the age of Dorothea Brooke, she was a world-class killjoy .
13 The amount of memory in the computer is probably a bigger killjoy than the measured speed.
14 In 1980, when killjoy accountants cited high production costs and shrinking profit margins, management pulled the plug.
15 Even describing to her why the idea was uncomfortable made me feel like the world's greatest killjoy .
16 This whole scene could be jolly if there weren't a death-radiating killjoy breathing moistly at my elbow.
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