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splenetic

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sple·net·ic  (spl-ntk) also sple·net·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the spleen.
2. Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability.
n.
A person regarded as irritable.
[Late Latin splnticus, from Latin spln, spleen; see spleen.]
sple·neti·cal·ly adv.
splenetic
Adjective
Literary irritable or bad-tempered [from spleen]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.splenetic - of or relating to the spleen
lienal, splenic
2.splenetic - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
bristly, prickly, waspish
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition


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To write within such severe rules as these is as impossible as to live up to some splenetic opinions: and if we judge according to the sentiments of some critics, and of some Christians, no author will be saved in this world, and no man in the next.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The fact is, as we have since been informed by one of the parties, it was a mischievous pleasure with some of the partners and clerks, who were young men, to play upon the suspicious temper and splenetic humors of the captain.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
It was a perfect embodiment of the still small voice, free from all cold, hoarseness, huskiness, or unhealthiness of any kind; foot- passengers slackened their pace, and were disposed to linger near it; neighbours who had got up splenetic that morning, felt good- humour stealing on them as they heard it, and by degrees became quite sprightly; mothers danced their babies to its ringing; still the same magical tink, tink, tink, came gaily from the workshop of the Golden Key.
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