We saw a number of splenetic outburst from the audience after their poor performance.    From LearnThat.org. 

I am told that "splenetic" language could be heard from the direction of the PM's office as soon as Brown read Darling's interview on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

That a Character of a splenetic and peevish HUMOUR, Should have.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)] Reference

He's splenetic Superlawyer, the man to see when all hope seems lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Role Model In His Own Mind] Reference

The barking of a splenetic little terrier brought from one of the tents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

That he was occasionally splenetic in his disposition is very manifest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference

You say you are not splenetic; but if you be, faith, you will break poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

The immediate cause of Moore's splenetic outburst was a dispute over Madeley's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 23] Reference

In the Times, Simon Jenkins has a suitably splenetic view of the whole circus.    From Wordnik.com.  [April 6th, 2008] Reference

He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill-luck.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

Swift and Dr Young have hardly been behind this celebrated splenetic in illiberality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

The herb is therefore gathered and used as a medicine for the cure of splenetic people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

She urges her faith in social regeneration; he vents his splenetic contempt for the mob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

No, I was not splenetic; you see what plunges the Court has been at to set all right again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

Like a lot of splenetic old right-wingers, Bunning has a well-nursed sense of personal grievance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Bunning: Too Mean and Weird for the GOP] Reference

A vapourish or splenetic patient is a fiddle for the doctors; and they are eternally playing upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Corsica, drawn by Seneca, may have been much exaggerated by his distempered and splenetic state of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

For my own part, a few close November days will make me as captious and splenetic as Matthew Bramble himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

Time has dimmed neither its splenetic malice nor joyful ignorance, but what about the 75-year-old Wolfe himself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Filler: Uncle Tom's Crabbin'] Reference

He had not Dickens's buoyant temper and love of company, nor did he indulge in the splenetic outbursts of Carlyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

Charles Baudelaire, who lived there briefly in the 1860s, devoted considerable splenetic attention to the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is There a Belgium?] Reference

Save in the splenetic outbursts of Byron -- and they are not to be taken too seriously -- the indispensable laws of.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

If any splenetic member calls for the clearing of the house, the traveller clears it by withdrawing; he is not hanged.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The splenetic epithets heard in many madrassas or mosques or taught in many Islamic textbooks are exemplary of the evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

I could not, for to behold her in distress without a capacity of relieving her from it would add much to my splenetic habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

If you wish to reply please be courteous and factual-splenetic and content free posting tends rather to confirm me in my views.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

A lot of what went on in these meetings was just a more splenetic version of complaints that had already been sent through channels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Free]

I perceive, my dear sir, that I am at intervals for indulging this splenetic manner, and following my own taste, regardless of yours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

I had also Mr. Selwin who was a banker in Paris, a worthy man, but a more splenetic one I never knew, with an extreme good understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

His weakness of body seems to have acted upon his strong mind, which must account for much that is satirical and splenetic in his writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

"A splenetic and idle discontent with the existing institutions of society seems to be at the bottom of all their serious and peculiar sentiments.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Finally -- right on schedule -- the brilliant, splenetic title character played by Hugh Laurie correctly diagnosed the problem as a congenital heart defect.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Doctor Makes 'House' Calls] Reference

Whoever it was, he must have excogitated the idea at a distance, and in some splenetic humour; it never could have entered through his eyesight standing here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

The Admiralty method of paying out anyone against whom you cherished a grudge possessed advantages which strongly commended it to the splenetic and the vindictive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference