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patricide

NOUN
  1. the murder of your father
  2. a person who murders their father

How To Use patricide In A Sentence

  • The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
  • Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
  • It was horrific and gruesome and I wondered how any of these women could get through each day without committing patricide.
  • Many years earlier Teiresias had warned the Theban king Oedipus that he was guilty of incest and patricide, but Oedipus had heeded his warning too late.
  • It's about fratricide, patricide, matricide - the ultimate dysfunctional family.
  • It's about fratricide, patricide, matricide - the ultimate dysfunctional family.
  • It's just that our society is now quickly turning body fat into a taboo, somewhere below incest and patricide.
  • The first of the immeasurable crimes is patricide, killing one's father.
  • Father and Son, as a prelude of the English new biography, has ushered in the wave of patricide into modernist literature.
  • After all, even if a sultan died in his own bed of ‘natural causes’, poisoning would be suspected because patricide was the most common and convenient means of ascending the throne.
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