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spoiler
noun as in bungler
noun as in looter
Example Sentences
His campaign was largely funded by conservative donors to serve as a spoiler for Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris.
Also shining a light is Úrsula Corberó as Nuria, the series’ nicest, sanest, least compromised person, whose entire character has for no good reason been declared a spoiler, even though she’s essential to clarifying and/or confusing the issue of how bad or good the Jackal really is.
We know now that Jill Stein was not ultimately the 2016 spoiler that sank Hillary Clinton in swing states.
While third-party nominees are ostensibly in the race to win, they’ve historically had the biggest impact when they are able to present a real threat of acting as a spoiler to major parties.
So far this method had allowed the Working Families Party to maintain its ballot line in a state in which the fusion party system was explicitly designed to stamp out third parties, dating all the way back to former President Franklin Roosevelt’s re-election campaigns, when Democrats feared labor parties could play the spoiler.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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