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  • noun Plural form of splenetic.

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Examples

  • However, you do seem to be insulting the "splenetics" while at the same time making the case for the big tent?

    The Next Right 2009

  • And of late she had mastered the silly splenetics of childhood.

    The Fortunate Youth 1914

  • And of late she had mastered the silly splenetics of childhood.

    The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

  • For nearly two weeks we've been sustained by two-way mega-splenetics about the waste of time and money and about the psychic cost to our families.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Robert Service 2010

  • But unlike today's professional AM-radio splenetics, he never once receives detailed talking points from a political party.

    The Pitch | Complete Issue 2010

  • Certainly, it was the kind of result where one could present one's face to the knockers and the splenetics with '' equamity '' - as Wilson Tuckey had described Turnbull's mood earlier, scattering a stray vowel and a consonant in his enthusiastic reportage.

    unknown title 2009

  • Certainly, it was the kind of result where one could present one's face to the knockers and the splenetics with '' equamity '' - as Wilson Tuckey had described Turnbull's mood earlier, scattering a stray vowel and a consonant in his enthusiastic reportage.

    unknown title 2009

  • For example, Platina copies several of Martino’s recipes for “peacock cooked so it seems to be alive,” and then says that “it is a food that digests slowly and is scarcely nourishing; it increases melancholy and is harmful to splenetics, and it is dangerous to the liver.”

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • For example, Platina copies several of Martino’s recipes for “peacock cooked so it seems to be alive,” and then says that “it is a food that digests slowly and is scarcely nourishing; it increases melancholy and is harmful to splenetics, and it is dangerous to the liver.”

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

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