splenetic English

Meaning splenetic meaning

What does splenetic mean?

splenetic

— adjective (= splenic) of or relating to the spleen

— adjective (= bristly, prickly, waspish) very irritable bristly exchanges between the White House and the press he became prickly and spiteful witty and waspish about his colleagues

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splenic

waspish

peevish

lienal

testy

prickly

morose

irritable

fretful

bristly

wayward

vixenish

viperish

vindictive

untoward

tart

surly

sullen

stroppy

splenish

shrewish

recalcitrant

pungent

pettish

mordant

malignant

irascible

illtempered

ill-humoured

grouching

disquietingly

dispiteous

cross

cranky

crabbed

captious

cantankerous

bloody-minded

biting

bileful

barbed

bad-tempered

acrid

acid