suicidally

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English

Etymology

From 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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