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
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
"I've an idea I'm spleeny," he replied with a ghastly attempt at a smile.
From The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Linwood Severy
"Wal', he 's poored away dreadful, but Aunt Lowize says he 's turned to git along all right now, and when Aunt Lowize gives hopes, it 's good hopes, she 's nachally so spleeny."
From Vesty of the Basins by Sarah P. McLean Greene
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