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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

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

The wild-eyed expressions and tone of his voice were full of vicious, splenetic wrath.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2018

In “Farinelli and the King,” also a Globe production, he occupies a poignant middle ground between those two Shakespearean archetypes, as a troubled soul who shifts between lyric melancholia and splenetic rage.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2017

You perceive how blind, how unjust and splenetic, I was; and, the longer it lasted, my spleen increased.

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




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