spleeny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of spleeny
Example Sentences
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Webster's hero-villain is a spleeny young opportunist named Flamineo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The cord has snapt that held my kite;— My friends neglect the books I write, And wonder why the author's spleeny!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
And she held her head and her nose up in a very disagreeable and haughty way, and said as I left, that she never could bear to help spleeny people.
From Samantha at Saratoga by Holley, Marietta
Here again, you spleeny devil, get thee behind me!
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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