Crossword clues for spleeny
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spleeny \Spleen"y\, a.
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Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause.
--Shak. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
Wiktionary
a. full of spleen; melancholy
Usage examples of "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.
Miss Smedley wuz hypoey and spleeny -- and thought she wuz sicker than she really wuz.
And she held her head and her nose up in a very disagreeable and haughty way, and said as I left, that she never could bear to help spleeny people.
It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had--that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain.