Spleenful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈspliːnfəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Spleenful is an adjective meaning Full of spleen; spiteful.
Meaning
Full of spleen; spiteful.
More Meanings
- A quantity of invective.
- More than one can take.
Example Sentences
But suddenly, inexplicably, I've had a spleenful of it, and I'm going for the kid.
His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.
Miss MARY JERROLD was just the perfect BARRIE mother (of Mary Rose). Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES' squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow.
On a sleepless odyssey through the capital's nightspots, cafes, office blocks and bedroom floors, Johnny (something between a slice of John Lydon, and a dose of Mark E. Smith) vents a spleenful of bile on whomever he encounters.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grudgeful, sanguinary, fiendful, discontentful, sanguineous, rife.
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