| Young people reading articles such as this will shrug and dismiss it as kill-joy and another example of the nanny-state. |
| Mr. pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars. |
| Out upon him, for a paid agitator, a kill-joy, and a humbug. |
| Scrooge is the anti-festive man brought into the circle of festivity, the kill-joy transformed into the joyful player. |
| At any rate Danger's proceedings are of a most kill-joy nature. |
| I was urged to play, and, not wanting to be a kill-joy, I foolishly agreed. |
