(a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
Example Sentences:
Splenetic
Definition:
(a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
(n.) A person affected with spleen.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he was far from comic as the splenetic Marquis of Queensberry, hounding Oscar Wilde to prison over his son's liaison with the homosexual playwright, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).
(2) He’s a glorious, motormouth comic when he’s on form, and his standup shows can be brilliantly splenetic.
(3) Experimental pancreatitis was induced by cooling the splenetic part of rat pancreas with chlorethyl, and the cells of duodenal area of the pancreas were studied at different stages of pancreatitis using cytomorphometry, cytomorphology and autoradiography.
(4) The EU intervention drew a splenetic response from Kovács – a former PhD graduate from CEU – who described it as “camouflage” for pushing an agenda favouring “illegal” migration.
(5) Your early morning bulletin, where a beautiful woman reads the furious barrage of splenetic tweets that Trump inevitably wrote and sent while sitting on his golden toilet between the hours of 2am and 5am the previous night.
(6) Aside from the confused versions of feminism – and the contortions do seem to be down to the splenetic mood – there are elements that are really indefensible from the husband's point of view, unless his return were to be added as an appendix.
(7) 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.
(8) Some of its content – the splenetically sweary Rage Quit strand, for example – may not be seen as child-friendly by some parents.
(9) Peter Capaldi reprises his TV role as Malcolm Tucker, a splenetic, combative director of communications who may be loosely based on Alastair Campbell.
(10) Because of the splenetic activity and the higher sex ratios, the Hellstrom hypothesis is refuted.