splenetic
Example Sentences
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And Carlin’s routines, particularly from his splenetic, late-period specials, have hardly lost their punch.
From New York Times • May 11, 2022
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
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
I. The splenetic or melancholic partakes of the properties of the earth, being cold, dark, and hungry for the light.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
