"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
"he became prickly and spiteful"
"witty and waspish about his colleagues"
of or relating to the spleen
splenetic 片语
片语
spunky有精神的;容易发怒的;充满勇气的;生气蓬勃的
crosspatch脾气坏的人
lienic脾的
curmudgeon脾气坏的人,乖戾的人;吝啬鬼;存心不良的人
splenetic 例句
英汉例句
he points to the real scandal: that mr grass was himself so casually splenetic over so many years about other people’s shortcomings, while concealing his own.