spleenful
Americanadjective
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full of or displaying spleen.
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ill-humored; irritable or peevish; spiteful; splenetic.
adjective
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affected by spleen; bad-tempered or irritable
Other Word Forms
- spleenfully adverb
Etymology
Origin of spleenful
Example Sentences
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A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Smallbones kept up a fiery run of comment and spleenful argument on every individual who backed the doctor in his demand for moderation.
From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell
We regretted, for Thackeray's own sake, that he had permitted himself, in some spleenful moment, to commit an injustice, which would sooner or later be apparent to his own mind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
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
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