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
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 Holley, Marietta
This is the spleeny vein, and I indulge it to make you laugh, but really, my journey was as comfortable as heat and speed would allow.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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 Severy, Melvin Linwood
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