choleric

For centuries the finest medical minds harped on attuning a balance among the four humors—sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic—in tender young constitutions by adjusting the proportions of hot-cold and moist-dry elements in the diet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Goodell’s imposition of “discipline” — an infantilizing word for adult workplace conduct — has veered between politically calculating and choleric.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

Griffith was one of those self-mythologizing frontier characters, a self-promoter of choleric temper and roller-coaster fortunes; the “colonel” title itself is of murky origin, perhaps from some brief spell with the California National Guard.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022

Her father, Giuseppe, a loud, choleric Triestine, always took a cold shower in the morning:

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019

The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman