spleeny

How to use spleeny in a sentence

• I suppose being shut up in the house with my sprained ankle makes me spleeny.

  Rodney, the Ranger | John V. Lane

• 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.

  The Darrow Enigma | Melvin L. Severy

• He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver.

  In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria | Henry Morton Stanley

• Being in a spleeny and uncomfortable mood to-day, what resource so legitimate as to betake myself to my own family?

  Julia Ward Howe | Laura E. Richards

• "I've an idea I'm spleeny," he replied with a ghastly attempt at a smile.

  The Darrow Enigma | Melvin L. Severy