Splenetic in a sentence as an adjective

The more common emotional meaning would be something more like "spite" or "anger"; hence the adjective "splenetic".

Splenetic definitions

adjective

of or relating to the spleen

See also: splenic lienal

adjective

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

See also: bristly prickly waspish