atrabiliously
/ˌætɹəˈbɪli.əsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an atrabilious (melancholy or ill-natured) manner; grumpily, irritably, morosely.
Example Sentences
- "Come, then, thou man of nice discernment and of most fastidious taste, and let us see what it is thou hatest; – where, and what is that mob which moveth thee so atrabiliously? All below a certain class may be regarded as the mob."
- "I atrabiliously drew on my trousers, and grumbled furiously at the stupidity of my Highland valet."
- "With both his eyes in his two hands' default, / At brother Luther he made fierce assault; / Then atrabiliously his gaze he turned, / Upon a Roman pontiff he discerned."
- "Nothing at all is recallable of the journey into Tokyo, and to the Tokyo Hilton Hotel – no sounds feudally romantic (the noodle-seller's flute, for example, which tootles atrabiliously in every book about Japan), no exotic sights or odours, no flashes of insight, no pricking of the thumbs."
- "Buchanan was about to reply atrabiliously that he was not a wayside pox-doctor for every rake who passed along the King's Highway, but, remembering that in part he owed the establishment of his practice in Brockville to Gowan, he held his tongue."
Etymology
From atrabilious + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more atrabiliously (comparative)
most atrabiliously (superlative)