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
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 Holley, Marietta
The cord has snapt that held my kite;— My friends neglect the books I write, And wonder why the author's spleeny!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
Not for this do we now vigorously let him alone, but because his spleeny literary utterances these many years attest the precise moment in which bright Apollo left him.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
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