atrabilious

Etymology
From ( + ).

Adjective

 * 1)  Having an excess of black bile.
 * 2) * 1645, Arthur Wilson, quoted in, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 1984, ISBN 978-0-297-78381-7:
 * [I] could see nothing in the evidence which did persuade me to think them other than poor, melancholy, envious, mischievous, ill-disposed, ill-dieted, atrabilious constitutions.
 * 1) Characterized by melancholy.
 * 2) Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
 * 1) Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
 * 1) Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
 * 1) Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.