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splenetic

[spli-net-ik] / splɪˈnɛt ɪk /




















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For as long as it has existed, rap was, or was supposed to be, the crafted but splenetic outpouring of the dispossessed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 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

The call represents one side of a debate about how the media should view and respond to the president’s splenetic attacks on the press — or whether the media should do anything at all.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2018

Beneath the splenetic cupola of the heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as the sky, they journeyed onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned to hope for ever.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire


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