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
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
I suppose being shut up in the house with my sprained ankle makes me spleeny.
From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by John Goss
The man who thinks he is dying may be spleeny, but the man who says he is spleeny is, of the two, the one more likely to be dying.
From The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Linwood Severy
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