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Significados de killjoy en inglés

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Someone who spoils the pleasure of others.

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        Examples for "spoilsport"
        Examples for "spoilsport"
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        And only a beastly spoilsport would point out that rats can swim.
        The folklore of discworld
        2
        Two factors have emerged to play spoilsport - valuations and inflation.
        Reuters
        3
        Still, not to be a spoilsport, he too broke up with his wife.
        The Guardian
        4
        He shot me a look as if to say 'spoilsport'.
        The World According to Bob
        5
        On a day when the weather again tried to play spoilsport, nobody could ruin Lowry's party.
        The Irish Times
        1
        Half-decayed wood is good; spongy, moist, unpleasant stuff, a vegetable wet blanket.
        Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
        2
        His great experience and standing threw a wet blanket on my hopes.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        3
        This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits.
        Sister Carrie: A Novel
        4
        I cried, this is indeed a wet blanket thrown upon my success.
        The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
        5
        He was then unimaginably awkward, incapable of unbending, a wet blanket socially.
        The Mirrors of Washington
        1
        I took a party pooper pill on the way back to the ship.
        The truth of valor
        2
        But am overruled by Larry, halfheartedly trying not to be a party pooper.
        Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
        3
        Maia, the party pooper, was nursing a mug of herbal tea.
        Mission road
        4
        Bob just looked at me as if I was the world's biggest party pooper.
        The World According to Bob
        5
        I hate to be a party pooper, y'all, but I need to get home.
        Dead air
        Uso de killjoy en inglés
        1
        It's hard for me, too; I don't want to be the killjoy.
        Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia
        2
        A year or two at most. Saying so, Grigori felt like a killjoy.
        Russian Winter
        3
        He did not intend any longer to play the part of a killjoy.
        A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois') — Volume 2
        4
        Anxious, haggard, greedy, I stood among them like a veritable killjoy.
        Waifs and Strays / Part 1
        5
        I must not make myself a killjoy in the family.
        Manasseh: A Romance of Transylvania
        6
        A killjoy, in the very worst sense of the word.
        Death Mask
        7
        What kind of a miserable killjoy could deny such harmless buzz to a child?
        The Guardian
        8
        Only a po-faced killjoy would fine him for giving so much pleasure to so many.
        The Irish Times
        9
        Don't be such a killjoy; take a wild guess.
        Schild’s Ladder
        10
        I'll not stand for it, you darned old killjoy.
        Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
        11
        But who wants to be a miserable old killjoy at this time of the year?
        The Guardian
        12
        By the time George Eliot was the age of Dorothea Brooke, she was a world-class killjoy.
        The new yorker
        13
        The amount of memory in the computer is probably a bigger killjoy than the measured speed.
        Reuters
        14
        In 1980, when killjoy accountants cited high production costs and shrinking profit margins, management pulled the plug.
        Wired
        15
        Even describing to her why the idea was uncomfortable made me feel like the world's greatest killjoy.
        Ebony
        16
        This whole scene could be jolly if there weren't a death-radiating killjoy breathing moistly at my elbow.
        Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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