Nov 212010
(adjective) \at-ruh-BIL-yuhs\
1. Melancholic; gloomy.
2. Irritable; ill-natured; peevish.
Captain Aubrey’s steward [was] an ill-faced, ill-tempered, meagre, atrabilious, shrewish man who kept his officer’s uniform, equipment and silver in a state of exact, old-maidish order come wind or high water.
-Patrick O’Brian, The Hundred Days
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