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splenetic
adjective as in acrimonious
adjective as in angry
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adjective as in bad-tempered
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adjective as in crabby
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- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in crabby/crabbed
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- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
adjective as in cross
adjective as in crusty
adjective as in fretful
adjective as in grim
adjective as in moody
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- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
adjective as in morose
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- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- dolorous
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- moody
- moping
- perverse
- perversive
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- sulky
- taciturn
- troubled
adjective as in peevish
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- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
adjective as in quick-tempered
adjective as in snappish
adjective as in spiteful
adjective as in testy
adjective as in tetchy
adjective as in touchy
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adjective as in virulent
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Example Sentences
But Jack was at that day a reckless fellow, and he lived to be passionately sorry for his splenetic madness.
But here I am pouring out this one-sided splenetic humor upon you without having the least intended it when I sat down.
What a sickly womanhood grows up in a nervous, feeble, neuralgic, splenetic female body!
Appeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied.
And the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls.
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On this page you'll find 751 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to splenetic, such as: belligerent, bitter, caustic, petulant, rancorous, and testy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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