atrabilious , also: atrabiliar

I suggest "atrabilious", from the Latin for black bile, thought by the ancients to be one of the body's four "humours".

His own brusqueness, cynicism and temper predisposed him to atrabilious vodyanoi.

He was accompanied by another man, a soldier with an atrabilious mien whom the Caitiffin introduced as his aide.

The Tormentum was a sepulchral temple to the Master of Mankind, atrabilious and funereal.

Leda (1920) "Ninth Philosopher's Song" Then brim the bowl with atrabilious liquor!

As in the aside "I do hate atrabilious conversation" as you listen to your mother-in-law drone on in an hypochondriacal manner.

With a finely mimicked lugubriousness, Heft Galewrath narrated the story of two stubbornly atrabilious and solitary Giants who thrashed each other into a love which they persistently mistook for mortal opposition.

Atrabilious persons, owing to their impetuosity, are, when they, as it were, shoot from a distance, expert at hitting; while, owing to their mutability, the series of movements deploys quickly before their minds.

Some decades letter grew up another writer in the same street - and his childhood memories sound very similarly atrabilious like the narration by Du Maurier: "When I stroll around Passy I feel like wandering inside myself and always I am faced with my own childhood."