: 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 WebThe 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 That will to negate, to kick at society’s glass jaw and not call it a tantrum, changed when the romantic death wish became actual death, and Gunn had to see that beloved figure, dead on the kitchen floor, over and over again.The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 The Irishman has been calling out UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman as of late, which seems like a death wish. Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022 Outlook: Scott has 11 freshmen on the roster, which seems like a death wish in an era of no-sit transfers. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021 If the answer is yes, liberalism would seem to have a death wish. Damon Linker, The Week, 29 Sep. 2021 On May 29th, the second day of no-hiking conditions, one of the various weather reports indicated that, at around 9 p.m., a two-to-four-hour window might open during which a hike could qualify as a risk rather than as a death wish. Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 When your choices are to go on a death wish of a mission or die, someone will always die, one way or another.Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021 Somehow, Statham rallied the lightness to discuss being a softie father to real son Jack, 3, (with model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) and granting Post Malone's onscreen death wish. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021 See More