hari-kari
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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What will Boehner do when he’s done committing political hari-kari?
From Time • Oct. 26, 2015
Had we placed any confidence in the resolutions passed by the Memphians, we should have expected all the denizens of the Bluff City to commit hari-kari, after first setting fire to their dwellings.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace
Not one would dare defy an Anaconda order; it would be political hari-kari.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
It will be suggest to me, because I am of daimio blood"—Tamada drew himself up slightly as he claimed his nobility—"that I make hari-kari.
From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton
A man who would prefer some recent stuff to the celebrated vintage of 18—, would commit intellectual hari-kari.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter
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