Whenever the family plan to arrange a family reunion party, they just avoid Aunt Katherine, the only spinster in the family, because she’s a spoilsport, ruining the party by complaining about the poor arrangements or by hurting someone with her rude remarks.

Some employers who act like typical spoilsports discourage enthusiastic employers from doing improvements to the way the offices are run just because they think the employee take too much advantage and misuse their freedom.

There are all sorts of spoilsports in our society: spoilsports that keep showing up the unfortunate failures of the government; spoilsports in sports who keep giving bad reviews about players making silly mistakes in the game but earning large sums of money; spoilsports that keep movie-goers from enjoying their favourite actors’ movies with their indecent remarks, and so on.