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- noun dated Plural form of
spoil-sport .
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Examples
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They're simply not ashamed to be the political equivalent of grade school recess spoil-sports.
Bob Cesca: Killing the False Equivalency "Both Sides" Meme Bob Cesca 2010
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They're simply not ashamed to be the political equivalent of grade school recess spoil-sports.
Bob Cesca: Killing the False Equivalency "Both Sides" Meme Bob Cesca 2010
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They're simply not ashamed to be the political equivalent of grade school recess spoil-sports.
Bob Cesca: Killing the False Equivalency "Both Sides" Meme Bob Cesca 2010
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But bitter experience, that all persons above thirty-five were spoil-sports, prevented him.
In Chancery 2004
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Afterwards when we were home in barracks, these enthusiasms in my case were corrected by remembering that the Germans had twenty cavalry divisions each as imposing as this our only darling, of which I formed a part; and secondly by wondering what would happen if half a dozen spoil-sports got themselves into a hole with a maxim gun and kept their heads.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Afterwards when we were home in barracks, these enthusiasms in my case were corrected by remembering that the Germans had twenty cavalry divisions each as imposing as this our only darling, of which I formed a part; and secondly by wondering what would happen if half a dozen spoil-sports got themselves into a hole with a maxim gun and kept their heads.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Afterwards when we were home in barracks, these enthusiasms in my case were corrected by remembering that the Germans had twenty cavalry divisions each as imposing as this our only darling, of which I formed a part; and secondly by wondering what would happen if half a dozen spoil-sports got themselves into a hole with a maxim gun and kept their heads.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Besides, the friendly rain had curtained him and kept away the spoil-sports.
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He looked at them as if to say: 'Well, what spoil-sports!
Five Go Off To Camp Blyton, Enid 1948
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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
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