spleenful

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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smallbones kept up a fiery run of comment and spleenful argument on every individual who backed the doctor in his demand for moderation.

From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell

But the gauntlet now is nearly run,   The spleenful forts by fits reply, And the burning boat dies down in morning's sky.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman

His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher

Careless, if envy, with a spleenful sneer, Reviles that eulogy she bates to bear, Saying with freedom's ill-assum'd pretence, 'Tis noxious flattery, o'erwhelming sense.

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William