How to Use killjoy in a Sentence

killjoy

noun

• I don't want to sound like a killjoy, but shouldn't we study tonight?
• That doesn’t mean this week’s episode of The Monitor is just three killjoys in a room being the worst, though.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2016
• So sorry to be a killjoy, Hoosiers’ fans, but Michigan wins this one big.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
• Ghilarducci is not aiming to be a killjoy just for the hell of it.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Now for the killjoy: Pregnancy can cause your skin to go a little haywire.
  — ELLE, 24 June 2022
• At first, it was gently commented on, but of course no one wants to be a killjoy, so now it just sort of … happens.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2018
• At first, it was gently commented on, but of course no one wants to be a killjoy, so now it just sort of ... happens.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Sadly, the plan to use the full Formula 1 layout has been squashed by the killjoys at the FIA, for reasons that completely elude me.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2018
• Well, without seeming like a pedantic killjoy, there are those legal niceties of the system.
  — vanityfair.com, 23 May 2017
• The cloying, dull pain of chafing or blisters is one of the biggest backpacking killjoys.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2018
• The dithering middle-age killjoys follow the girls, and their dates, from prom to lakeside after-party to hotel bash.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Our favorite killjoy Dana Stevens wonders whether the movie’s visually overwhelming look is at all matched by its plot.
  — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• Feminists don’t want to pose as killjoys bent on confiscating mani-pedis.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• Instead, using a refund to pay off a credit card balance feels far from a joyous event and more like a big financial killjoy.
  — cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Lately the literary novel has gotten stuck with a reputation as the killjoy roommate in the house of fiction.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• Cinemas have opened; music is performed in public; the killjoy morality police are off the streets.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Part of a sorority that is redefining what funny means in movies, Ms. McCarthy is proving that women can be comedy’s font, not just the killjoy who shuts off the tap.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2016
• She’s the office killjoy who adores Templeton (Dee), the officer from another precinct who is gunning for Emily’s job.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 31 Oct. 2022
• Bangladeshis follow the World Cup fervently, ignoring killjoy officials who have tried to stop them flying flags.
  — The Economist, 9 June 2018
• But as emissions rise, the killjoys are resorting to shame and repulsion as weapons against environmental evils.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• Reuters reports that just as Republicans were celebrating this important step, the killjoy academics at the Fed had to open their mouths and ruin everyone’s good time.
  — Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• The bigger threat is the army of Halloween killjoys, sprinkled throughout neighborhoods, their houses often decorated for the holiday, the better to lure unsuspecting children to their doorsteps.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• But when the party gets raging — when economies accelerate and stock prices ascend to levels out of whack with fundamentals — central bankers play killjoy, lifting interest rates to snuff out attendant dangers.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024