atrabilious

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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

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

His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And as for ALFRED, why, of course You snubbed him; but was that a crime, That he should go and call you names, And print his atrabilious rhyme?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 by Various