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• n  someone who spoils the pleasure of others

• It's also a musical where two performers who've done exemplary work in Broadway shows Vanessa Williams and Barry Bostwick are condemned to nonsinging, spoilsport roles.
• But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard.
• Her spoilsport campaign had gone nowhere.

• killjoy
• wet blanket
• party pooper

News & Articles

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• John Culleton: You can't always have it all your way
  Remember when you were young the kid who was a spoilsport; the playmate who wanted to change the rules so that he or she would always win the game? And when that wouldn’t work he or she would pick up their marbles or their ball and bat and go home to pout?
  Sept. 3, 2013 - Carroll County Times

Quotes

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• Jairam Ramesh in NewKerala.com
  Various trade unions in the tea gardens have been playing spoilsport to the negotiation process of reopening the tea gardens as they have vested interest. So are the garden owners who fail to come on the negotiation table,Mr Ramesh said out...
• Jim Fitzpatrick in This is London
  Jim Fitzpatrick, former minister for London, called Mr Johnson "a rotten spoilsport and a cheapskate" and Lib-Dem London Assembly member Dee Doocey also called for a rethink.
• Bal Thackeray in Business Standard
  In a one page statement issued in the evening, Thackeray said, "In 60 years of independent India, for the first time a Marathi person is getting a chance to hold a such a high office, and at such time, we won't like to play spoilsport. It will be a...