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Word entry · 7 letters

killjoy

Best crossword clue

"Fun spoiler"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/Part of speech nounSorted ijklloyStarts with KEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A person who spoils other people's fun.

Word origin

From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.

Used in a sentence

  • What kill-joy have we here? […] I feel it in my bones some rascal is come to Galing, one that bringeth ill hap in his pocket and a shadow athwart the sun on this our day of festival.
  • He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]

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