spleenful

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His nature was a complex affair, which combined many admirable qualities oddly mixed up with a disposition as sour and spleenful, even revengeful, as well could be.

From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell

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)

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

Careless, if envy, with a spleenful sneer, Reviles that eulogy she bates to bear, Saying with freedom's ill-assum'd pretence, 'Tis noxious flattery, o'erwhelming sense.

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William