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Another standout in the main slate is “Synonyms,” a furious, at times splenetically funny squirm-a-thon from the Israeli director Nadav Lapid, which snared top honors at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

On the other, it's splenetically funny enough that such concerns are usually forgotten.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2011

With the post of Prime Minister in his reach, Kitchen gave a splenetically injudicious "twenty-five-minute speech and a fifteen-second interview" that blasted his career.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose.

From Time Magazine Archive

His face was a striking one; the forehead was high and intellectual, the nose prominent and somewhat hooked, the eyes were dark and deep, and gleamed splenetically from under the shaggy and prominent brows.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)