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.]

I ain't no kill-joy and I want Scraggsy to get some fun out of this frolic.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon