| We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate. |
| The builders of the Bay Colony were redefined as bigots, prudes, and killjoys. |
| We are not killjoys, but many of the items routinely on sale in the town are not appropriate for a resort which wants to welcome everyone. |
| We're not trying to be killjoys but we do not want anyone to be injured or killed whilst celebrating Hallowe'en. |
| Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with. |
| Religious critics lacked fervor and moral authority, while surviving Populist and Progressive skeptics were dismissed as killjoys or cranks. |
