atrabilious
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, when they make an effort to match their colors to the novel's atrabilious atmosphere, the moviemakers overdo the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
The article came to us just as we were laboring under an attack of dyspepsia, and its reading fairly shook our atrabilious corpus.
