How To Use Killjoy In A Sentence
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Asylum seeker, economic migrant, bed-blocking, and stakeholder pension reflect the serious side of life; bunny-hugger (a conservationist or animal lover), chick flick (a film appealing to women), gearhead (a car enthusiast), and Grinch (a spoilsport or killjoy) are entries in a more light-hearted vein.
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives
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It's meant to be a fun for all occasion to take our mind off the advent of Winter, so let's have no killjoys of any description spoiling it for others.
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Nine tenths of the critical writing about commodity culture could be anthologized under the title Killjoy Was Here; whether the point of view is Marxist alienation or post-structuralist hauteur, it's a given that the critic is monkishly immune to the gratifications involved.
Material Girl
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I have long ago learnt not to over-analyze… it is a killjoy.
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Customs officers may remain unpopular among smokers and drinkers who see them as killjoys ready to seize over-the-limit alcohol and cigarettes brought back from holidays.
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Russell is an American creative writing teacher and, at the risk of sounding like a killjoy, her book could do with less ‘style’ and more substance.
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Killing the fatted calf is another Biblical phrase which ought to act as an antidote to killjoy Christmases.
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But "killjoy" Royal Mail officials were unimpressed by the colourful upgrade, vowing that they would repaint it in standard Royal Mail red.
News round-up
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And, that great corrupter, the fear that if you don't laugh you will be seen as a prig and a killjoy.
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Gwyndaf M Hughes, one of the founders of the Welsh Monster Raving Loony Christian Party writes in to tell us how crap all the other parties are, and how voting for a return to a Bible-bashing tea-total nation of morose killjoy whingers is a good thing.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Times change, but only a killjoy would grudge Scots a bit of nostalgic wishful thinking at a time of year ripe for reflection.
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He's not a man-hater or a killjoy, just a husband and a dad.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are not killjoys, but many of the items routinely on sale in the town are not appropriate for a resort which wants to welcome everyone.
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This would just mark you down as a humourless killjoy.
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I'm sure we'll get some responses that brand me a killjoy - that's fine, I probably am - but can they please be accompanied by some reasoned argument.
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This would just mark you down as a humourless killjoy.
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Let the killjoys rant to their hearts' content.
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I'm inclined lately to start whining about SGA again, but I am aware exactly how much that kind of thing annoys people who *are* feeling good about life, the fandom, and everything, so I'm thinking I might lock everything down so as not to be that crushing killjoy that nobody likes well, so as to keep it somewhat under wraps that I *am* that crushing killjoy that nobody likes.
This magical thing you call a flock
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You can call this the most seasonally unsympathetic killjoy of a column if you like, but over the past week did television not furnish the most unappealing crock of keech to masquerade as mass entertainment?
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Talking of killjoys, I see the Food and Drink Federation's latest wheeze for tackling the problem of obesity is to force restaurants and take-aways to carry detailed nutritional information about every dish on their menu.
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What film, even before that killjoy schoolmarm Joseph Breen brought his Squaresville strictness to the Production Code in 1934, has ever presented the potentially salacious scenario of three-way love in such a wistfully complicated way?
Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living
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Killing the fatted calf is another Biblical phrase which ought to act as an antidote to killjoy Christmases.
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It's official: the killjoys have taken over the season.
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I know the quickest way to be called a killjoy is to suggest that a great American food institution should be sacrificed to preserve the health of kids with dietary restrictions, whether it's a peanut-butter sandwich for lunch or a peanut-filled cookie at snack time.
About.com Parenting Special Needs
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The builders of the Bay Colony were redefined as bigots, prudes, and killjoys.
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[My apologies in advance if any of this sounds like nitpicking or any other kind of killjoy, buzzkill, etc.]
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank the council for cleaning up the parks so promptly after the Halloween period but I wish they would stop being killjoys in their attitude towards children building bonfires.
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Don't invite her. She's such a killjoy.
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We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate.
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Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with.
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The killjoy has been the fear that inflation is bubbling out of control.
From On High
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Oh dearie me, another killjoy objecting to the 'noisiest' light aircraft doing aerobatics in the skies over Maidenhead.
Undefined
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I have long ago learnt not to over-analyze… it is a killjoy.
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But if Dad weren't such a killjoy, she could've done it openly, like her friend was allowed to.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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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.
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Angry mums and dads say the council is a killjoy for putting up signs forbidding ball games on a green between Overbrook and Bevisland.
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We do not want to be dubbed killjoys but we do urge respect and consideration for others and ask parents to take responsibility for their children, ensuring well-intentioned, light-hearted pranks do not get out of hand.
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But Sarah called me a "killjoy" today and that pissed me off.
Nisayon Diary Entry
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There's some schmaltzier fare as well, but you'd have to be a real killjoy not to enjoy the classics.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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We don't want to be killjoys and in time it may be that we can find a designated area for skateboarders to enjoy themselves but we feel that the town centre is not a suitable place on safety grounds.
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As if the velvety voices were not enough, the choir members also double as drummers, clappers and high-kicking dancers to ensure that not even the most resolute killjoys could resist the magnificent vocal beauty and power of this choir.
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We're not trying to be killjoys but we do not want anyone to be injured or killed whilst celebrating Hallowe'en.
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God is not a cosmic 'killjoy' who wants us to be puppets on an unseen string.
Cross Rhythms
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'killjoy' Ms Harman from making Page Three girls 'illegal'.
Home | Mail Online
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Since Jake wasn't what Janis called a ` killjoy " towards the world at large, his reason was clear.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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If you're a glum dour downbeat killjoy who has nothing to peddle but reheated miserabilism, you will come across as a bitter fool, and no one will be persuaded.
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Religious critics lacked fervor and moral authority, while surviving Populist and Progressive skeptics were dismissed as killjoys or cranks.
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My apologies in advance if any of this sounds like nitpicking or any other kind of killjoy, buzzkill, etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
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Must I then be a killjoy, a frustrated prude, secretly longing to write articles on porn so that I can sneak a look while publicly tutting?
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This externalisation removes all sense of the latent, and, by extension, the disturbing, licensing the audience to observe this play's gaiety and poignancies without being perpetually wary of killjoy provisos.
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Generational divisions were eroding and many parents preferred to see themselves as friends of their children rather than the killjoys they considered their own parents had been.
