Kevorkianesque

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kevorkian +‎ -esque

Adjective[edit]

Kevorkianesque (comparative more Kevorkianesque, superlative most Kevorkianesque)

  1. Reminiscent of the beliefs or activities of Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American euthanasia activist.
    • 2000, Newsweek:
      Networks continue their suicidal ways, serving up this "flash in the pan" dreck, and your attention to it is nothing less than Kevorkianesque.
    • 2007, Michael Shermer, The Mind of the Market:
      Lethal injection or some other Kevorkianesque technique? That would be illegal.
    • 2010, Jim Butcher, Changes:
      “It's a Kevorkianesque cry for help.”
    • 2012, Jane Heller, You'd Better Not Die Or I'll Kill You:
      My then-boyfriend-now-husband scared the hell out of me that day in 1991, both because he wasn't the type to wail and because he was suggesting that I do something pretty Kevorkianesque.