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
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 Ridgwell Cullum
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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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 Ridgwell Cullum
That his motive in enlightening his employer upon those matters which went on in his absence was largely spleenful, even revengeful, there could be no doubt.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
