#splenetic

[essentiallydanielle]

SPLENETIC // LIKE ROSES

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Splenetic

[ spli-ne-tik ]

Adjective

1. Bad-tempered

2. Of, relating to, or affecting the spleen

Synonyms (def. 1)

Irritable

Malicious

Grumpy

Testy

Peevish

Irascible

Origin

Late 16th century; from Latin "spleneticus," from Greek "splēnētikos," from "splēn," meaning spleen.

Example

His splenetic response to criticism only escalated the argument.

Related Forms

Splenetically (adv.), Spleneticness (noun)

[theinkedknight]

And I wish you loved me the way you think you do

But I still want to come home and that's as sad as it is true

Do your friends at the bottom of your bottle love you like

Like I do?

[aceofvase]

[postersbykeith]

[isomorphismes]

In [the rich man's] heart he curses ambition, and vainly regrets the ease and the indolence of youth, pleasures which are fled for ever, and which he has foolishly sacrificed for what, when he has got it, can afford him no real satisfaction. In this miserable aspect does greatness appear to every man when reduced either by spleen or disease to observe with attention his own situation, and to consider what it is that is really wanting to his happiness. Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor. They are immense fabrics, which it requires the labour of a life to raise, which threaten every moment to overwhelm the person that dwells in them, and which while they stand, though they may save him from some smaller inconveniencies, can protect him from none of the severer inclemencies of the season. They keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death.

Adam Smith, 1759 -- The Theory of Moral Sentiments

(thanks to @faustroll

[5wordsaday]

splenetic (adj.)

irritable, peevish, spiteful

[cuartoretorno]

Like Roses - Splenetic 2023