spleenful
Example Sentences
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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
His nature was a complex affair, which combined many admirable qualities oddly mixed up with a disposition as sour and spleenful, even revengeful, as well could be.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
To see the gathering grudge in every breast, Smiles on her lips a spleenful joy express'd; While on her wrinkled front, and eyebrow bent, Sat stedfast care, and lowering discontent.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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 Herman Melville
