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
Banish the kill-joy Who eats the king's dainties!
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
If his stately cousin was a kill-joy in the household, Shane's mother was no better than she.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
