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How To Use Spoilsport In A Sentence

  • I fully expected to wind up in the role of spoilsport, but fortunately, truth is sometimes more interesting than fiction.
  • She did ask her dad if she could have a big party, but the old spoilsport refused.
  • What a spoilsport ," Molinari said when Kate was out of earshot. THE ASSOCIATE
  • Oh, don't be such a spoilsport, I'm sure we'll have a great time and nobody's going to get hurt.
  • The others started to file out, muttering about him being a spoilsport.
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  • Such spoilsports, however, could not prevent cultural exchanges.
  • Darryl was scowling out the window, and Chad was too worried to tell him to stop being such a spoilsport.
  • Accuse me of being a spoilsport and I will plead guilty.
  • Or maybe it's because they're no-good party-pooping spoilsports who couldn't write a decent song if they had a gun to their heads.
  • I had received a few abusive tweets too many on the social networking site, and decided to do something about them: not because I am a spoilsport or humourless, but because I object to family and friends reading comments about me which are not just wicked, but against the law. 'Police put the phone down on my complaint over Twitter racial abuse'
  • The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
  • All of which might just be enough to dispel the shadow that has been cast by the PSN trouble... that is if hackers don't decide to play spoilsport and manage to knock out the network again on Monday. Turnstyle: E3: Microsoft and Sony Preview
  • Short-sellers are traditionally depicted by corporations as satanic spoilsports who routinely spread hideous lies about the companies they're betting against.
  • Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
  • 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
  • She knows some people will think her a spoilsport for promulgating these ideas, especially in Australia where ‘an English garden’ with borders and lawns is still the gardening aspiration of many.
  • The chief objection of these spoilsports is that history cannot be seen as simply a random catalogue of chance events, any of which might have turned out differently.
  • In making these assertions, I am not being a curmudgeon, a whiner or a spoilsport.
  • I know, Stefan, and I'm sorry I'm being such a spoilsport, but right now I just want to be alone for a bit.
  • Obama hasn't taken any guns, nor has he announced any plans to do so, However the Hype put out by his spoilsport opponents, that sure as heck sells guns. Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade
  • Disgruntled creditors may once again play spoilsport for troubled pharma company Wockhardt and question the R1,575-crore deal that company inked with French dairy major Danone to sell its nutrition business. Deals India: Morning News Roundup
  • Yet even now the usual cavalcade of naysayers, spoilsports, and harbingers of doom are mustering their forces to oppose this latest face of the technological revolution that is rapidly reshaping society.
  • Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with.
  • Oh don't be such a spoilsport, let's have some fun!
  • Although I didn't want to be a spoilsport, I secretly wondered how much of that we'd really find, given that 450 rental houseboats cruise the lake, along with noisy jet skis and countless private boats.
  • The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
  • I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but exactly what do you have planned?
  • No thanks to the spoilsports who are trying to take the fun out of it.
  • Civic spoilsports, however, banned the annual nude swim off Bondi Beach.
  • The cast is universally appealing, and everything about the movie seems to be enjoying itself to such a degree that any derision would make me feel a spoilsport.
  • So the CoE is not quite the spoilsport we originally imagined.
  • Archer had to be a spoilsport and point out that there was no more room in the car.
  • ‘Oh, well, Kin and Mic will be some fun even if you're a spoilsport,’ she said, and fixed her eyes on both of us.
  • Accuse me of being a spoilsport and I will plead guilty.
  • As a world-class spoilsport and curmudgeon, I now have less and less anecdotal material to fall back on when I want to blast another society. French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
  • Only spoilsports warned that disaster loomed, and they didn't get nearly as much air time as the boosters.
  • The rush of private equity PE funds to purchase a slice of power producing companies has slowed down, despite a fall in asset value, as fuel linkage and tariff issues play spoilsport. Deals India: Morning News Roundup
  • It was to 'spoil the fun' for the last time as Gandhi failed to play 'spoilsport' ever again and the tournament continued until before partition. The Times of India
  • Rorty may very well be right, but reading him is as pedestrian as his ideology, like a spoilsport picking a pin in a balloon rather than building something. Designing a Hermetically Sealed, Self-Pleasing Ideology
  • Some spoilsport reviewers have referred to the lyrics as smug and smirking; I prefer to view them as wry and whimsical.
  • The law has the age of drinking set at 18 for good reasons, not just to be spoilsports.
  • In churches where there is always a grand vision to be pursued, you almost feel like a spoilsport coming along with your question about the problem of evil.

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