美
[splə'netɪk]
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
"he became prickly and spiteful"
"witty and waspish about his colleagues"
Her hostess who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.
出自： George Eliot
The poem closes with an outburst of splenetic raillery.
出自： W. E. Gosse
