Spoilsport vs Unctuous - What's the difference?
spoilsport | unctuous |
Someone who puts an end to other's fun, especially harmless fun.
* 1908 , ,
* 1912 ,
(of a liquid or fatty substance) Oily or greasy.
* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 96:
Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.
* 1872 , , Beauty and The Beast; and Tales of Home , ch. 3:
(by extension, of a person) Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 14 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1919 , , The Hohenzollerns in America , ch. 8:
As a noun spoilsport
is someone who puts an end to other's fun, especially harmless fun.As an adjective unctuous is
(of a liquid or fatty substance) oily or greasy.spoilsport
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Alternative forms
* spoil-sport (dated)Noun
(en noun)- I know I am a sad spoilsport , but it would make me wretched.
- He looks a spoilsport . There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun:
Synonyms
* killjoy * party pooperSee also
* burst someone's bubble, bust someone's bubble * make waves * killjoy * party pooper * put a damper on * rain on somebody's parade * rock the boat * upset the applecart, upset someone's applecart * stick in the mud * wet blanket * buzz killunctuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties.
- The halls and passages of the castle were already permeated with rich and unctuous smells, and a delicate nose might have picked out and arranged, by their finer or coarser vapors, the dishes preparing for the upper and lower tables.
- Then he thoroughly disliked the tone of Mr. Slope's letter; it was unctuous , false, and unwholesome, like the man.
- In superior circles, however, introduction becomes more elaborate, more flattering, more unctuous .