How to Use killjoy in a Sentence
killjoy
noun- I don't want to sound like a killjoy, but shouldn't we study tonight?
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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
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So sorry to be a killjoy, Hoosiers’ fans, but Michigan wins this one big.
—USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2020
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Ghilarducci is not aiming to be a killjoy just for the hell of it.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
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Now for the killjoy: Pregnancy can cause your skin to go a little haywire.
—ELLE, 24 June 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Well, without seeming like a pedantic killjoy, there are those legal niceties of the system.
—vanityfair.com, 23 May 2017
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The cloying, dull pain of chafing or blisters is one of the biggest backpacking killjoys.
—Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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Feminists don’t want to pose as killjoys bent on confiscating mani-pedis.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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Cinemas have opened; music is performed in public; the killjoy morality police are off the streets.
—The Economist, 23 June 2018
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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
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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
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Bangladeshis follow the World Cup fervently, ignoring killjoy officials who have tried to stop them flying flags.
—The Economist, 9 June 2018
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But as emissions rise, the killjoys are resorting to shame and repulsion as weapons against environmental evils.
—The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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