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
I am sorry to be a kill-joy, but one week will have to be my limit this year.
From Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
It crosses his path as a kill-joy and a mar-plot, and it is absurd to expect that he will be pleased.
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles
