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splenetic

adjective as in bad-tempered

adjective as in grim

adjective as in snappish

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Example Sentences

But Jack was at that day a reckless fellow, and he lived to be passionately sorry for his splenetic madness.

But here I am pouring out this one-sided splenetic humor upon you without having the least intended it when I sat down.

What a sickly womanhood grows up in a nervous, feeble, neuralgic, splenetic female body!

Appeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied.

And the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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