splenetic
Example Sentences
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It’s a look — for starters — at a splenetic young writer who, during a stay in the country, waits for his publisher to weigh in on his unfortunately titled second novel “Club Sandwich.”
From New York Times
When she came back to Broadway, two years later, she gave an eye-scalding fireworks display as the splenetic, dying mother in “Three Tall Women,” for which she won a Tony.
From New York Times
Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views.
From New York Times
These are things that just make us splenetic, things we fall in hate with, even though they are easily ignored.
From Washington Post
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
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