atrabilious
- s irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum.
- 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.
- Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander.