Spoilsport

Word SPOILSPORT
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Definitions and meanings of "Spoilsport"

What do we mean by spoilsport?

One who mars the pleasure of others. noun

Someone who puts an end to other's fun, especially harmless fun. noun

Someone who spoils the pleasure of others noun

Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.

A person who ruins the fun for others. A buzzkill. This shitty person is to be avoided at all times. Urban Dictionary

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The word "spoilsport" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 Staff (2011)

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 Staff (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

These 8-year-olds, be it known, don't have lisping voices and Lord Fauntleroy curls: they have five-o'clock shadow, a strong sense of their due entitlements according to the current trick/treat exchange rate and a lovingly accumulated arsenal of eggs, fireworks and plastic bags full of dog doo with which to play jocular tricks on spoilsport adults who won't join in with the spirit of Halloween. ❋ Sam Leith (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Darkerblogistan (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No, he's not an anti-Blue Samurai spoilsport; he's Paraguay's 73-year-old ambassador to Japan, part of a small percentage of Paraguay's population to claim Japanese heritage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When it is subordinates objecting to a directive from above, this protects an individual from seeming, as you say, a spoilsport. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How do we get out of these forced social activities that we do not want to be part of without looking like a spoilsport? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not a spoilsport perhaps, but an entire team of spoilsports. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While baseball fans in D.C., and potential victims everywhere else, await the arrival of pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg, I will play the spoilsport. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So as a spoilsport I brought up the matter of the potential $1 trillion cost, and, wouldn't it make more sense to apply this sum to renewable energy, global warming remediation and the national infrastructure? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've done that too, on occasion; being a serial spoilsport isn't a lot of fun. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jane: Did u see how much she was yelling? [Ann]: Yeah, what a spoilsport. She [ruined] the [whole party]. ❋ Juliantchr (2021)

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