Definitions

spleen

[spleen] / splin /

NOUN

peevishness, spite

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ill humor ill temper peevishness

STRONG

anger choler depression dislike grudge hatred hostility ire malice maliciousness meanness melancholy nastiness rancor resentment spite spitefulness wrath

WEAK

despitefulness

Antonyms

STRONG

cheer friendliness happiness joy kindness liking love loving sympathy

WEAK

good humor

Example Sentences

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Spleen Actors Guild: Emoting our guts out since 1933.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

In 2013, I read an investigative article in Mexico City’s Spleen!

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016

Spleen boiled up bitterest around a green-topped table in one of the small private committee rooms of the World Monetary and Economic Conference.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are five or six Persons of Quality in this Town, who, rather than expose themselves too much to Spleen, will not admit of Visits from the Towns-people.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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