marplot

• Platt and the Machine naturally wished to get rid of this marplot, who could not be manipulated, who held strange and subversive ideas as to the extent to which the Ten Commandments and the Penal Code should be allowed to encroach on politics and Big Business, and who was hopelessly "altruistic" in caring for the poor and down trodden and outcast. —  Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography
• I did not wish to be a killjoy and a marplot, or I would have forbidden Fred to touch a foot-ball after he entered college. —  The Opinions of a Philosopher
• She was a good-natured, social, blundering body, whom girls condescended to affect, because she liberally patronized young people, proving, however, quite as often the marplot, as the maker of their fortunes--not from malice, but from a certain maladroitness and fickleness. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• Of me you did not think, except as a marplot! —  Ishmael In the Depths
• Lambert had spoken bravely enough to the marplot, knowing that he had done no wrong, but now he was by no means sure that he had acted rightly. —  Red Money

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