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US
/ˈkɪɫdʒɔɪ/
]
[ UK /kˈɪldʒɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɪldʒɔɪ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who spoils the pleasure of others
How To Use killjoy In A Sentence
- What I've generally de-duced is that men in their twenties are ignorant of the relevance of most feminist issues and think feminists are in varying degrees: full of hot air, lesbians, killjoys. Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » July
- Don't invite her. She's such a killjoy.
- We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate.
- Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with.
- The killjoy has been the fear that inflation is bubbling out of control. From On High
- Oh dearie me, another killjoy objecting to the 'noisiest' light aircraft doing aerobatics in the skies over Maidenhead. Undefined
- I have long ago learnt not to over-analyze… it is a killjoy.
- But if Dad weren't such a killjoy, she could've done it openly, like her friend was allowed to. OUT OF THE ASHES
- You know, call me a plebeian, call me a killjoy, but two hundred quid strikes me as a bit on the steepish side for a bunch of fish and rice.
- Angry mums and dads say the council is a killjoy for putting up signs forbidding ball games on a green between Overbrook and Bevisland.