spleeny

Definitions

Examples

• 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.

• He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver.

• Being in a spleeny and uncomfortable mood to-day, what resource so legitimate as to betake myself to my own family?

• "I've an idea I'm spleeny," he replied with a ghastly attempt at a smile.