Looking for sentences and phrases with the word kill-joy? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Scrooge is the anti-festive man brought into the circle of festivity, the kill-joy transformed into the joyful player.
You're not taking things too far or being a kill-joy if you report it.
The moralist has been branded a kill-joy and, more darkly, an inquisitor.
Here, more than at Furnas, the wind, which is often adverse, can be a kill-joy and adding a further difficulty to the length of the course of 6,120 metres.
Examples from Classical Literature
Louis, in fact, must have appeared to Charles primarily in the light of a kill-joy.
I don't want to be a kill-joy, but don't give me more of that side of your character than you can help.
Frederick was a kill-joy, she said, and moreover she did not wish to ask an extra woman to dinner.
I was urged to play, and, not wanting to be a kill-joy, I foolishly agreed.
Out upon him, for a paid agitator, a kill-joy, and a humbug.
He acquired his kill-joy status after he was accused of forcing ex-girlfriend Kapoor to convert to vegetarianism and give up their partying ways.
Mr. pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars.
Young people reading articles such as this will shrug and dismiss it as kill-joy and another example of the nanny-state.
At any rate Danger's proceedings are of a most kill-joy nature.
For it was Mr. Canning without a doubt, a kill-joy on this occasion.
I am not a kill-joy and see nothing wrong with professional pyrotechnicians holding organised displays in parks and stadia etc.
The kill-joy cop REFUSED to let her bring it on board last Thursday, and sent her on to Dublin empty-handed.
But no, some kill-joy decided not only should the lovely National Treasure's request be refused but that she should be publicly flogged for daring to ask for help.
