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The phrase 'would have wished' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing regret for a past action. For example: "I wish I had taken the time to visit her before she passed away; I would have wished to tell her how much I loved her."
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Nobody would have wished Charlottesville.
In other words, exactly as his friend would have wished.
It is not what I would have wished.
This is surely what JRRT would have wished.
HE DIED as he would have wished it, without surrendering a scrap of power.
"It was not what I ever would have wished on him".
Things are not, however, working out as he would have wished.
Watkins departed the stage as he would have wished, the subject of a waspish anecdote.
Yet there is not a man Jack of them who would have wished this on him.
He added, "My service did not end as I would have wished".
Such groups have traditionally had some say (albeit less than they would have wished) in policymaking.
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