spleeny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of spleeny
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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
But Miss Mooney wouldn't give up, and insisted to the very last that Miss Smedley wuz hypoey and spleeny — and thought she wuz sicker than she really wuz.
From Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley
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 Maud Howe Elliott
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