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splenetic

[spli-net-ik] / splɪˈnɛt ɪk /




















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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

Parlá is loose with his fields of color, but never splenetic.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2020

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

What!" exclaimed our friend, in a splenetic tone, "have we nothing but portraits, illuminated names, and allegorical figures, to show in honor of a prince, who, in my opinion, merits quite a different eulogy?

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von




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