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splenetic

[ spli-net-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of the spleen; splenic.
irritable; peevish; spiteful.
Synonyms: choleric, petulant, touchy, fretful, testy, irascible, vexatious
Obsolete. affected with, characterized by, or tending to produce melancholy.

splenetic

/ splɪˈnɛtɪk /

From the Late Latin word splēnēticus, dating back to 1535–45. See splen-, -etic

C16: from Late Latin splēnēticus, from Latin splēn spleen

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.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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