as in drag
a person who spoils the pleasure of others
I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket
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Recent Examples of wet blanket
Thus a wet blanket should be tossed over the Lakers’ engineering of the most celebrated 55th overall pick in NBA draft history.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
The effect this had on Drake’s diss was like throwing a wet blanket on a raging fire.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
While the spontaneous Moon in your 9th House of Travel conflicts with wet blanket Saturn in your anxious 12th house, your own inhibitions could be a bigger obstacle.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024
Don’t be a texting wet blanket Striking some particular tone is less important than matching your conversation partner’s energy.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
The effect this had on Drake’s diss was like throwing a wet blanket on a raging fire.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
While the spontaneous Moon in your 9th House of Travel conflicts with wet blanket Saturn in your anxious 12th house, your own inhibitions could be a bigger obstacle.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024
Don’t be a texting wet blanket Striking some particular tone is less important than matching your conversation partner’s energy.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
See all Example Sentences for wet blanket
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wet blanket
Noun
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For anyone looking to escape the onslaught of terrible news in 2025, drag superstar Trixie Mattel has an offer: Why not come dance with a drag queen for a while?—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
4 Feb. 2025
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Our conversation took place a few weeks before the 2024 US presidential election, by which time the political and legislative attacks on transgender people and the criminalization of drag were in full swing.—
Richard Meyer,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Despite his literal change of heart, the Grinch continues to symbolize holiday party poopers everywhere.—
Mike Miller,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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Mosquitoes are, in fact, hellish little bugs that take the gold for summer’s biggest party poopers.—
Katie Camero,
SELF,
25 July 2024
Noun
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As the scholar of Victorian culture Will Abberley outlines, in early works such as Glaucus, Kingsley was prone to interpret nature in moral terms, to finding symbols of virtue in behaviors revealed through observation, so that bees display industriousness, crabs cleanliness, and so on.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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Isopods are an order of invertebrates belonging to the greater crustacean group of animals, like crabs and shrimp.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Sequences of Elvira starving herself and obsessing over her weight bore the points down like a drill, though the screenplay could do more to explore the lead’s subjectivity and how her self-lacerating pursuit of beauty is becoming infectious to all around her.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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The first Prohibition Collection consisted of five different whiskeys that were unique to the Buffalo Trace lineup, although some bore similarities to brands produced there today like George T. Stagg, Sazerac, Eagle Rare, and W.L. Weller.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2025
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In contrast to the depictions of suffragists as dowdy old maids, the woman portrayed in this postcard is conventionally attractive and fashionably dressed.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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As fans have known since Bridgerton’s first season finale, Whistledown is none other than Penelope Featherington—the clever wallflower (played with verve and empathy by Nicola Coughlan) who has languished long enough without nuptial prospects to be considered an old maid.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
16 May 2024
Noun
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The cynics say the wildfires are the death knell of the film business.—
Todd Heyman,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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As the two moved through the scenes like a pair of tragic jesters, delighting the wide-eyed and annoying the cynics.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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Suddenly, the Republicans were the spoilsports who couldn’t take the joke, a position stereotypically held by politically correct liberals.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
9 Aug. 2024
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Millennial workers are increasingly becoming the office spoilsports, with young people increasingly likely to be in it for the money rather than for fun, as years of economic turmoil force them to keep their heads down, collect their monthly paychecks, and fight for a promotion.—
BYRyan Hogg,
Fortune Europe,
26 June 2024
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“Wet blanket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wet%20blanket. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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