atrabilious
Example Sentences
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The one truly successful film of this period is Mike Nichols's version of Edward Albee's , where a middle-aged academic couple tear each other apart in a manner reminiscent of Strindberg at his most atrabilious.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2011
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind.
From Time Magazine Archive
His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw nothing, in the women condemned at Chelmsford, "other than poore mellenchollie ... ill-dieted atrabilious constitutions, whose fancies working by grosse fumes and vapors might make the imagination readie to take any impression."
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
