Sadly, such Panglossian self-delusion is not confined merely to the Lab-liar front bench but has seeped into the self-delusory tone of much CiF comment which has reacted splenetically to having been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the lid of which has now been firmly smacked shut. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Words like dumb-ass hang as incongruously as a medallion on an old swingers chest but it is splenetically riveting for all that. ❋ Newmania (2007)
This trait infects all his work these days - God is Not Great, while occasionally splenetically entertaining, will not sway a single undecided. ❋ TEV (2007)
Baleful, I suppose, was the word for what I did—incongruities, absurdities, and falsities eyed splenetically and in the English manner: Gillray, Rowlandson, et al, but more fingery in the line, more persnickety, and without the current affairs. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
“Over thine,” retorted the Dwarf, more splenetically than became a philosopher or hermit, “folly exercises an unlimited empire, asleep or awake.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
` ` Over thine, '' retorted the Dwarf, more splenetically than became a philosopher or hermit, ` ` folly exercises an unlimited empire, asleep or awake. '' ❋ Unknown (1898)
Do we not feel that there must have been in the unhappy man, besides all the recorded pettinesses and perversities which revolt us in him, a vein of something which touched men, and made women devoted to him, until he splenetically drove both men and women away from him? ❋ John Morley (1880)
The "works" of which Ben wrote so splenetically in Poet-Ape, were the works of a Playwright-Actor, who could be nobody but the actor ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
"I guess you'll find it so," said Elise Mokey, splenetically. ❋ Unknown (1865)
He was inordinately vain of his services, thinking himself, said Alonzo, splenetically, worthy to be carried in a procession like a little saint, and as he had a busy brain, but an unruly tongue, it will be seen that he possessed a remarkable faculty of making himself unpleasant. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
"Over thine," retorted the Dwarf, more splenetically than became a philosopher or hermit, "folly exercises an unlimited empire, asleep or awake." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Should he not care to use slang, he might report that he is now in something of a qualm himself because his friends behave so splenetically. ❋ Unknown (1980)
"Thus," said a Walloon historian, splenetically, "by this regulation, and by means of heavy duties on foreign manufactures, have the English built up their own fabrics and prohibited those of the ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
"[I am not] splenetive and [rash]" ([Hamlet]). ❋ Minionswithpinions (2010)
