spleenful

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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Mr. Arthur Whitby's parson, Mr. Norman Forbes' squire, Miss Jean Cadell's housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

But the gauntlet now is nearly run,   The spleenful forts by fits reply, And the burning boat dies down in morning's sky.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman

His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.

From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher