kill-joys

You could buy a turkey and you could get it roasted at the local bakery, though there is some talk in the novel of the kill-joys wanting to close down the latter.

A Christmas Ramble Peter Troy 2008

Indeed, there were many in Britain who viewed reformers like him as kill-joys who hated "pleasure and amusements," confusing moralizing with morality.

The Slave Trade's Great Enemy 2008

You could buy a turkey and you could get it roasted at the local bakery, though there is some talk in the novel of the kill-joys wanting to close down the latter.

Archive 2008-12-01 Peter Troy 2008

As ever, open source kill-joys had a few problems with Microsoft's license.

Boing Boing 2004

Still, we must no doubt avoid getting the reputation of kill-joys by repulsing them; for that sometimes happens.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

As a result of aristocratic propaganda, which could not forgive them for the execution of King Charles I, the name "Puritan" came to be falsely identified with dour kill-joys.

Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

Plenty of sceptics and kill-joys will remind us about that.

The 1971 Nobel Prize - Presentation Speech 1971

Yet those whom the common people call, in their picturesque language, wet blankets, spoil-sports, or kill-joys, are not necessarily hostile to the gaiety of the rest.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Only after an interval of forty years could I bear to read these kill-joys in translation.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

Have we not vagrants enough besides plaguy beggars, kill-joys of the feast?

Book XVII Homer 1909