spoilsport

For days, northern California newspapers kicked around fierce, spoilsport claims.

Never mind the spoilsport who defines college as “those magical seven years between high school and your first warehouse job.”

But rising interest rates and fears of a recession may play spoilsport in an industry where most vehicle purchases are financed with loans, analysts say.

When the “Yes” option pulled ahead, I found myself becoming the worst kind of online spoilsport: while people on Twitter sick of him celebrated that he was no doubt pouting at discovering how unpopular he plainly is, I started pedantically pointing out that there is actually no humiliating this guy who owns the company doing the “polling” and who has strategically framed the poll such that the “yes” option could describe what he’d already announced he was doing anyway.

Red hot inflation has also played spoilsport for consumer finance companies as surging costs dampen purchasing power and force Americans, especially those in the lower income bracket, to tighten their purse strings.