How to Use spoilsport in a Sentence

spoilsport

noun
  • Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Let them try it.
  • Dad's a spoilsport. He won't let us play football.
  • But who wants to be a spoilsport when so much fun is being had?
    — Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The spoilsports need to get back to their home state and do the job which their constituents elected them to do.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Who knows whether another variant will turn spoilsport next year.
    — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Granted, this might simply be an old-fashioned spoilsport way to view the market.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
  • No one likes a spoilsport, apparently.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The answer lies in psychology (or randomness, but please don't be a spoilsport).
    — The Mmqb Staff, SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Does wanting to moderate the telling of jokes about AI sentience become a grinch-like spoilsport?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The Virginia spoilsports also bar offering a two-for-one drink special, though half-off drinks are allowed.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For the spoilsport, this error 404 T-shirt is the perfect way to express your rotten attitude.
    — Jolie Kerr, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The control software is free, but the entrepreneurial spoilsports behind it sometimes lease the bots for about $2 per zombie.
    — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2009
  • Inevitably, violence erupts, both spontaneously, when a drug deal goes sour, and by design, when a spoilsport has to be eliminated.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But other spoilsports at media outlets such as Wired UK and the Verge also fretted about safety.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • But #BoycottChina, which has been trending on Indian social media for several days now, could play spoilsport.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 19 June 2020
  • Except for the usual naysayers, spoilsports and gloomy Gusses, nobody seems to mind much one way or the other if the annual deficit is $1 trillion, $2 trillion or $10 trillion.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Leave it to a spoilsport critic, escaping an atmospheric river on one coast only to be met with a nor'easter on the other, to connect the psychological metaphor of a freakish summer blizzard onstage with the battering reality of climate change.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Although some might have political objections to a film that celebrates bringing Western culture to a remote village in India, ignore those spoilsports and enjoy a fascinating musical odyssey.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2018
  • Yet ambiguous claims involving spirituality and a sort of interpersonal energy transference are unsupported, and there’s an underlying implication that doubters are just spoilsports.
    — Ken Jaworowski, New York Times, 31 May 2018

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