uxoricide

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Noun
  • Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.
    Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Pancakes and parricide, anyone?
    Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 24 Jan. 2021
Noun
  • Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.
    Stuart Dybek, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
  • One thing that struck most reporters was her apparent lack of remorse or grief over this rare crime — matricide, the murder of a mother by her biological child.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
  • The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
Noun
  • The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • The fratricide overshadowed Caracalla’s achievements, including the passage of an edict granting all free men in the Roman Empire citizenship and the construction of a luxurious public bath complex that bore the emperor’s name.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.
    Stuart Dybek, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
  • One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating the murder of a woman whose body was found stuffed into a closet Monday at a Florida Keys resort.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Menendez brothers were convicted in 1996 for the murder of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez.
    Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Three and a half years after the homicides, the emotions are still raw.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Local and state officials are investigating the 26-year-old's death as a homicide.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Uxoricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uxoricide. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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