death wish

noun

: the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of oneself or of another

Example Sentences

Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.

Recent Examples on the Web Ditlevsen also wrote candidly about her death wish, with unsentimental emotional force. —

Nina Siegal, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023 Jack Gallagher, the irascible Houston Post columnist of Pastorini’s heyday, used to complain that the Oilers’ dashing quarterback had a death wish. —

Dallas News, 27 July 2022 Even Sigmund Freud believed that all humans have a death wish. —

Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022 Did Trump's 'death wish' comment toward McConnell go too far? —

Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022 In African landscapes that are green, brown, blue, and yellow, painting your butt with sharp streaks of black and white seems like a death wish. —

WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022 Is leaving high blood pressure untreated really a death wish? —

Isabella Cueto, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022 Trump turns up heat on Mitch McConnell criticism, says senator has a 'death wish' The food and wine experience had to be canceled because of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, so people were more than ready for its return in this year. —

Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2022 The first Galito’s opened in Mbombela, South Africa, supposedly next to a Nando’s, which means, from the outset, Germishuys had either extreme confidence in his product or a death wish. —

Tim Carman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022 See More

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