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Grammar : Noun

Spell : wet-blang-kit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɛtˈblæŋ kɪt

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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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