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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

Parlá is loose with his fields of color, but never splenetic.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2020

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

The ceremony got on his nerves and caused him to write afterwards to his brother an entertaining splenetic diatribe on the clerical character and physiognomy.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney




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