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Synonyms for wet blanket


Grammar : Noun
Spell : wet-blang-kit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɛtˈblæŋ kɪt

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Définition of wet blanket

  • noun pessimistic person
Example sentences :
  • The name seemed to fall like a wet blanket on the high spirits of the crowd.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • However, I did not allow his presence to act as a wet blanket.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • She wouldn't spoil his happiness with the wet blanket of her own misery.
  • Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice
  • I run that wet blanket around the stacks as fast as I could several times.
  • Extract from : « Old Rail Fence Corners » by Various
  • I remember feeling as though a wet blanket had been thrown over me.
  • Extract from : « The Monitor and the Merrimac » by J. L. Worden et al.
  • The earth, soaked with oceans of rain, is steaming like a wet blanket.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
  • At least, she did not serve as a wet blanket upon Jennie Stone.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding At College » by Alice B. Emerson
  • The fact of his penury had been like a wet blanket upon him all day.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Lost Himself » by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • A wetter "wet blanket" it has never been my fortune to encounter.
  • Extract from : « Seen and Unseen » by E. Katharine Bates
  • Damn it, you agreed that that sulky brute Jeyes ud be a wet blanket!
  • Extract from : « The 'Mind the Paint' Girl » by Arthur Pinero

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