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Significados de killjoy em inglês

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