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
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 Marietta Holley
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
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
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