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
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
"I don't want to sound like a kill-joy ... but I do think we should face the facts squarely."
From Time Magazine Archive
The languages she takes to not unkindly; But mathematics is her scourge, her kill-joy, Pressing her like a nightmare.
From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes
The amateur advice-giver is a nuisance, a fidget, a kill-joy, and an unmitigated bore.
From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max
