atrabiliously

Adverb

atrabiliously (comparative more atrabiliously, superlative most atrabiliously)

1. In an atrabilious (melancholy or ill-natured) manner; grumpily, irritably, morosely.
   • 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.1831 September, "S.", “Where is the Mob?”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume XXXII, number CXXIX, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, →OCLC, page...
   • I atrabiliously drew on my trousers, and grumbled furiously at the stupidity of my Highland valet.1854, Heberden Milford, A Physician's Tale. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, →OCLC, page 237