as in wet blanket
a person who spoils the pleasure of others
a party pooper who insisted they turn the music down
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Recent Examples of party pooper
But none of the Premier League’s refs or growing cohort of specialist VARs revel in the role of party pooper.
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Graham Scott,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
But in their quest to make history, the guests turned into party poopers.
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The San Diego Union Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Graham Scott,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
But in their quest to make history, the guests turned into party poopers.
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The San Diego Union Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for party pooper
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But the rivalry between these teams runs deep, and the Penguins tried hard to throw a wet blanket on the Capitals' playoff hopes and Ovechkin's big day.
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Regardless, the new hard-line stance on playing time was a wet blanket tossed onto an overachieving team.
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And a relatively small number of conservative states have banned drag shows under public indecency or obscenity statutes.
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In many industries, the piecemeal approach manifests as margin erosion, compliance exposure and operational drag that compounds over time.
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The sculpture—which is home to live fish and crabs—takes inspiration from Newtown Creek, the toxic waterway between Brooklyn and Queens.
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Pair it with the crispy soft shell crab or Wagyu beef and black garlic gyoza for summery dinner.
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Breaking it down by item type, 80 percent of scarves 54 percent of tops, 25 percent of baby clothing, 13 percent of activewear and 14 percent of sleep wear bore inaccurate labels.
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Blanca Quinonez knows only one way to play, with full- bore, hit-the-floor intensity.
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March 2026 Prose's debut novel is centered around Molly Gray, a 25-year-old maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, a five-star boutique hotel, who has an obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette.
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These ajummas, these old maids, with their curly hair, were actually doing this!
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In the end, at the risk of sounding like a killjoy, a real way to save the planet and save money is to just buy and produce less.
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Which poem, and why did the killjoys at the magazine turn it down?
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“Party pooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/party%20pooper. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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