atrabilious

Eliphalet borrowed money, his habiliments grew shabby, he took up mean callings for the sake of pelf, he became a spunge; he grew bilious, atrabilious, patriotic and indignant.

After his conversion he made amends, though he was always the atrabilious faultfinder.

The melancholy or atrabilious temperament is of a different character.

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.

His sallow, atrabilious features disclosed the tortures of his soul.