splenetic
Example Sentences
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These are things that just make us splenetic, things we fall in hate with, even though they are easily ignored.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2022
For as long as it has existed, rap was, or was supposed to be, the crafted but splenetic outpouring of the dispossessed.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
But dragging a 16-year-old into this splenetic, self-serving bar brawl makes a dangerous new level of provocation that should not go unchallenged.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019
His older brother was into heavy-metal music, and Drnaso began to join him at concerts and record stores, developing a love for splenetic bands like Acid Bath and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
He was "More peevish, cross and splenetic Than dog distract or monkey sick."
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
