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