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  • 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.

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