splenetic
IPA: spɫˈɛnˈɛtɪk
noun
- (archaic) A person affected with spleen.
adjective
- Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- (biology) Related to the spleen.
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Examples of "splenetic" in Sentences
- By garrulity you will offend the splenetic and morose.
- What a splendid and splenetic team your answers would have made
- A front page NYT story profiles a particularly splenetic radio talk show host.
- I am told that "splenetic" language could be heard from the direction of the PM's office as soon as Brown read Darling's interview on Tuesday.
- Unlike Mitchell he didn't send me the rejection letters, but from the tone of his voice it sounded like they were once again eye-poppingly splenetic.
- But even by the standards of this combustible issue, the attack on the Guardian mounted by Israel's ambassador to London last week was breathtakingly splenetic.
- The balance between splenetic, foul-mouthed comedy and real pathos is exquisitely maintained throughout, making 50/50 as funny and wise about impending death as Knocked Up was about impending birth.
- In England at least there were fond memories of the Barnacle's stalwart defence in saving the Lord's Test in 1953 to temper the criticism even if EW Swanton was typically splenetic in his damnation.
- The Ghanaian fans reckoned Lúcio induced the referee's error with an exaggerated fall, so their repertoire of songs and sounds was augmented thereafter by splenetic boos every time the centre-back touched the ball.
- We are fortunate that Chris Waters's Fred Trueman – a thorough and judicious book that does not equivocate over the great Yorkshire and England fast bowler's complexities and sometimes splenetic temperament – is not so tentative.
- If you've read The Rum Diary, you'll notice that certain characters and events have been amalgamated, erased or enlarged, often cleverly and wisely, but that Robinson's gentler tone is slightly at odds with Thompson's marvellously splenetic and bilious prose.