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Meanings of killjoy in English
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Examples for "spoilsport"
Examples for "spoilsport"
1
And only a beastly spoilsport would point out that rats can swim.
2
Two factors have emerged to play spoilsport - valuations and inflation.
3
Still, not to be a spoilsport, he too broke up with his wife.
4
He shot me a look as if to say 'spoilsport'.
5
On a day when the weather again tried to play spoilsport, nobody could ruin Lowry's party.
1
Half-decayed wood is good; spongy, moist, unpleasant stuff, a vegetable wet blanket.
2
His great experience and standing threw a wet blanket on my hopes.
3
This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits.
4
I cried, this is indeed a wet blanket thrown upon my success.
5
He was then unimaginably awkward, incapable of unbending, a wet blanket socially.
1
I took a party pooper pill on the way back to the ship.
2
But am overruled by Larry, halfheartedly trying not to be a party pooper.
3
Maia, the party pooper, was nursing a mug of herbal tea.
4
Bob just looked at me as if I was the world's biggest party pooper.
5
I hate to be a party pooper, y'all, but I need to get home.
Usage of killjoy in English
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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