suicidally

English

Etymology

suicidal + -ly

Adverb

suicidally (comparative more suicidally, superlative most suicidally)

  1. In a suicidal fashion.
    • 1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (page 56)
      My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat.
    • 2010, Donald W. Bacon, Followed by Madness
      “Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate.
  2. In terms of or by means of suicide.
    • 1984, Sharon Scholl, Death and the Humanities (page 154)
      To accusations that her leap from her prison tower was suicidally motivated, she replies scornfully that anybody with any sense prefers to try for freedom instead of remaining in prison.
    • 2007, John H. Trestrail, III, Criminal Poisoning (page 63)
      There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her.
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