spoilsport
Speech parts
1. spoilsport - Noun
2. spoilsport - Adjective
Meaning
spoilsport (plural spoilsports)
Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.
spoilsport (comparative more spoilsport, superlative most spoilsport)
Like a spoilsport.
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Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
ARIZONA A British-owned newspaper is such a spoilsport, issuing dire warnings to Phoenix-area residents that they’re living in a fool’s paradise of bluegrass lawns and cooled pools.
The rain gods played the spoilsport and denied Afghanistan one crucial point.
“That left me to play the unenviable role,” she writes, “of spoilsport schoolmarm.”