spleeny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of spleeny
Example Sentences
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No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
Webster's hero-villain is a spleeny young opportunist named Flamineo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wall, Miss Mooney wouldn't give anything because she thought Jane Smedley wuzn't so sick as she thought she wuz; she said "she was spleeny."
From Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley
Here again, you spleeny devil, get thee behind me!
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
Not for this do we now vigorously let him alone, but because his spleeny literary utterances these many years attest the precise moment in which bright Apollo left him.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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