splenetic

How To Use splenetic In A Sentence

• The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would. Sir Charles Grandison
• Given his mental-health problems, the loss of his girlfriend and his battle with alcoholism, it would seem he has had more than his fill of heartache; consequently The Kiss of Morning is a splenetic, purgative record.
• It's anyone's guess, then, why he leaves his instruments dormant for much of this show in favour of splenetic rants and ruthless aggression towards his increasingly miserable audience.
• At three the following afternoon (everything running late), the Ambassador to Ix left the Throne Room looking agitated and splenetic. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
• It's bracing to hear Hodgson in full splenetic flow.
• We are further told that Finkelstein's book ‘reads like a rant, with splenetic attacks on individuals, many of them survivors, and vast generalisations about the whole of world Jewry.’
• He is at his splenetic best when rubbishing Auden's poetry, a subject he joyously returns to again and again.
• Rarely have I read a more bitter, laudably splenetic piece of invective.
• You'll be splenetic and over-heated and I'll be jocular and whimsical.
• And so the splenetic young rebel became a middle-aged man with studious specs and a shock of silver hair.