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spleen
Synonyms and Antonyms of spleen
- vented her spleen and felt much better for having done so
aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation
acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor
envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment
malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness
blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst
slow burn
- The bill's failure to pass in the legislature was due to nothing more than partisan spleen.
Synonym Discussion of spleen
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- felt no malice toward their former enemies
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- a look of dark malevolence
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- ill will provoked by a careless remark
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- petty insults inspired by spite
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- a life consumed by motiveless malignity
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- venting his spleen against politicians
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- never one to harbor a grudge
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