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Meanings of spoil sport in English

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Usage of spoil sport in English
1
But you need not spoil sport for all the rest of us.
Chatterbox, 1906
2
The birch-thebrown-bark western birch characteristic of lower stream tangles-isa spoil sport.
The Land of Little Rain
3
The dissolution of all contracts would not only ruin morality but spoil sport.
Orthodoxy
4
So you mean to spoil sport, even if the damage costs you nothing?
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
5
Lope, who never liked to spoil sport, said that he would make a fourth.
The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
6
I don't see why you come here to spoil sport.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
7
He'd never spoil sport for the likes of Gorman.
Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798
8
However, I considered that it was a practical joke, and I am no spoil sport.
Bab: A Sub-Deb
9
Oh, no, indeed, I don't want to spoil sport.
Dawn
10
There now, you have made a clean breast, and I am not one to spoil sport.
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
11
I didn't want to be a spoil sport.
The Lovely Lady
12
He was not willing to spoil sport.
Vanity Fair
13
Come out quickly; better that he should not hear us, or it may spoil sport for another time.
The Channings: A Story
14
Well, now, if you don't spoil sport, Elma will get into an altogether different circle from your humble servant.
Wild Kitty
15
Oh, don't spoil sport, Moll!
The Melting of Molly
16
I was determined that I would not spoil sport, or cast a shadow over the good spirits of our party.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
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