killjoy

Example Sentences

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Telling a Jambo to calm down as their team strides into an eight-point lead at the top of the table is to be the worst kind of killjoy.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

Alas, the gloomy revival by Lincoln Center Theater — complete with a killjoy Aaron Sorkin rewrite — isn’t one of those times.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

I don’t want to come off as a killjoy or someone too sensitive for this world, but I’ve got another birthday coming up and am tired of feeling like I’m back in junior high school.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

“It’s not especially that I wanted to be a killjoy, although that comes into it as well,” he adds, smiling.

From Scientific American • Nov. 23, 2022

Sheed, always a killjoy, said, “You’re not from Logan County.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles