How to Use spoilsport in a Sentence

spoilsport

noun

• Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Let them try it.
• Dad's a spoilsport. He won't let us play football.
• But who wants to be a spoilsport when so much fun is being had?
  — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2022
• But the spoilsports in Trump’s cabinet aren’t the only ones who fear the consequences.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• For the spoilsport, this error 404 T-shirt is the perfect way to express your rotten attitude.
  — Jolie Kerr, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
• The Virginia spoilsports also bar offering a two-for-one drink special, though half-off drinks are allowed.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• But other spoilsports at media outlets such as Wired UK and the Verge also fretted about safety.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
• The answer lies in psychology (or randomness, but please don't be a spoilsport).
  — The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The control software is free, but the entrepreneurial spoilsports behind it sometimes lease the bots for about $2 per zombie.
  — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2009
• Except for the usual naysayers, spoilsports and gloomy Gusses, nobody seems to mind much one way or the other if the annual deficit is $1 trillion, $2 trillion or $10 trillion.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2020
• A spoilsport could argue that this very public, mutual love affair now taking place is not really steeped in warm tradition.
  — Filip Bondy, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
• But #BoycottChina, which has been trending on Indian social media for several days now, could play spoilsport.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 19 June 2020
• Leave it to a spoilsport critic, escaping an atmospheric river on one coast only to be met with a nor'easter on the other, to connect the psychological metaphor of a freakish summer blizzard onstage with the battering reality of climate change.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Elza van den Heever has an appealingly smoky-timbred soprano, but her Alcina was emotionally straitjacketed, first as a femme fatale and then as a petulant spoilsport.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• Although some might have political objections to a film that celebrates bringing Western culture to a remote village in India, ignore those spoilsports and enjoy a fascinating musical odyssey.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
• Yet ambiguous claims involving spirituality and a sort of interpersonal energy transference are unsupported, and there’s an underlying implication that doubters are just spoilsports.
  — Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024