as in cynic
a person who spoils the pleasure of others
accused the mayor of being a grinch after he cancelled the city's annual holiday parade for budgetary reasons
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The native New Yorker has won over cynics before, his peers tell Fortune.
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Not everyone is happy about this apparently, as large portions of cynics and haters on social media are apparently ready to say auf wiedersehen to Freddy.
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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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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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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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The first thing Sweetpea does, after ditching her spoilsport colleague at the hotel, is pay a visit to SwiftGC, a payment processor recently acquired by Tender.
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Granted, this might simply be an old-fashioned spoilsport way to view the market.
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Instead of pushing through pain and not speaking up for fear they'll be labeled weak or a complainer, this generation is more inclined to listen to their bodies, advocate for themselves, and address the issue through the proper resources.
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However, the Lakers are complainers to begin with and have always gotten a favorable whistle.
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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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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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But in their quest to make history, the guests turned into party poopers.
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“Grinch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grinch. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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