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splenetic
/ splɪˈnɛtɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to the spleen
- spiteful or irritable; peevish
- obsolete.full of melancholy
noun
- a spiteful or irritable person
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Derived Forms
- spleˈnetically, adverb
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Other Words From
- sple·neti·cal·ly adverb
- unsple·netic adjective
- unsple·neti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of splenetic1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of splenetic1
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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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