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Kill-joy   Listen
noun
Kill-joy  n.  One who causes gloom or grief; a dispiriting person; a spoilsport.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kill-joy" Quotes from Famous Books



... horrid little man, a Mr. Clay, who has come all the way from England to see Mr. Ferrars, and begged to be allowed to attach himself to our party. A perfect little kill-joy he is, so prim, so proper and precise, that one is tempted to believe he must have been born a grown-up, and so has had ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

... so wealthy that few of them could pretend to aspire to her, so she selected for her chattel a young man called Willy Liston; a youth of an unhappy turn—he contributed nothing to hilarity, his face was a kill-joy—nobody liked him; for this female reason Christie ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade



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