| Being in a spleeny and uncomfortable mood to-day, what resource so legitimate as to betake myself to my own family? |
| He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver. |
| Here's a few insulting words from Shakespeare to get you started: goatish, malt-worm, measle, pox-marked, spleeny. |
| I suppose being shut up in the house with my sprained ankle makes me spleeny. |
| The man who thinks he is dying may be spleeny, but the man who says he is spleeny is, of the two, the one more likely to be dying. |
