spoilsport
Example Sentences
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And rains play a spoilsport here as well.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
For days, northern California newspapers kicked around fierce, spoilsport claims.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024
Just as investors were starting to get more confident about a soft landing for the world's largest economy, with strong jobs growth and cooling inflation, China is playing spoilsport.
From Reuters • Aug. 15, 2022
I also don’t want to be a spoilsport who vetoes his choices just because they aren’t what I want to watch.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021
He deserved it for being such a spoilsport.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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