- a variation of killjoy.
kill-joy
Example Sentences
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Scrooge is the anti-festive man brought into the circle of festivity, the kill-joy transformed into the joyful player.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2015
"I don't want to sound like a kill-joy ... but I do think we should face the facts squarely."
From Time Magazine Archive
Because their headquarters are thousands of miles away, the designers stationed in California exist in splendid -- and creatively productive -- isolation, relatively free from the kill-joy scrutiny of bean counters, marketing drones and engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the third day, the Saturday, he was so wild at his wife's speechlessness, that he was wilder still with that kill-joy of an Everard.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
Bridgie would not need her companionship any longer; she could be but a restraint and kill-joy in the conferences of newly-united sisters.
From More about Pixie by William H. C. Groome
