Citations:atrabiliously

English citations of atrabiliously

1. In an atrabilious (melancholy or ill-natured) manner; grumpily, irritably, morosely.
   • 1939, Business Week, →OCLC, page 43:

     But there's radio opposition. For example, P. J. Stanton, manager of WDAS, Philadelphia, comments 'atrabiliously on the fact that the […] people will pay $600,000 for newsier advertising. […] '

   • 1962, The NATS Bulletin: The Official Magazine of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, volumes 19–22, Chicago, Ill.: The Association, →OCLC, page 37:

     To be sure, speaking as he does with conviction born of a lifelong teaching experience coupled with keenly analytic observation of singing methods exploited by many stellar vocal luminaries, it is only natural that certain resultant dicta tend to become polemical now and then. That being the case, it follows that inexperienced teachers, together with some few more or less atrabiliously minded, will be apt to take violent exception thereto. Au contraire, it is our considered opinion that open-minded perusal of the text, taken as a whole, cannot do otherwise than convince the reader of its over-all truth!

   • 1969, A.U.M.L.A.: Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, numbers 31–32, Melbourne: The Association, →OCLC, page 205:

     Not [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, certainly, nor yet, at the other extreme, the "Goethe des petites mouches" that André Suarès rather atrabiliously descried in him on more than one occasion.

   • 1981, Philip J. Waller, Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868–1939, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     Lord Claud Hamilton meanwhile had been working on [Arthur] Forwood, atrabiliously drawing the picture of a volatile [Lord Randolph] Churchill, prompted by an evil genie, [John Eldon] Gorst. He argued that 'so long as Mr. Gorst is Vice Chairman of the Union, Lord Randolph cannot be put back in the Chair.'