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
His delivery wins crowds, but his jokes are not very thoughtful: hawking stereotypes about immigrant parents being wet blankets.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Thus a wet blanket should be tossed over the Lakers’ engineering of the most celebrated 55th overall pick in NBA draft history.
—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
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Thus a wet blanket should be tossed over the Lakers’ engineering of the most celebrated 55th overall pick in NBA draft history.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wet blanket
Noun
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The reason for the changes, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Friday, was the center's decision to host drag show performances at its venue.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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That’s what was needed — a gay person who wasn’t dying, who was lively and running around doing drag, being funny, being outrageous.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 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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Cancers, symbolized by the crab, are notorious for being nurturing, protective, and moody.—
Maya Layne,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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There’s the obligatory seafood tower ($115), which depending on the season might include shucked oysters, spiny lobster, Santa Barbara uni and succulent chunks of Dungeness crab.—
John Metcalfe,
The Mercury News,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Again, the temperature rose far earlier than expected, and the KTB team was also surprised to find that the rock at this depth was not solid, and large amounts of fluid and gas were pouring into the bore hole to complicate the effort further.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 2025
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Eli Sharabi’s home bore marks from the attack months later.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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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All one needs is to read the headlines today, 45 years down the road, to see that sometimes cynics have a point.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
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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
Noun
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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 3 Mar. 2025.
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