sadist
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Asked why he used other insults including "scumbag, grooming, homophobic, sadist", Mr Linehan replied: "I don't think there's anything lower than a man who bullies a woman."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Fromm covers much of this ground again, analyzing Heinrich Himmler and Josef Stalin as case studies of the sadist driven by the need to dominate.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
My parents think I’m a sadist, just for doing all the work that I do at once.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
In his sweeping 1965 novel “Dune,” Herbert introduced one for the ages: a corpulent, power-hungry sadist with the suitably sinister name of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
"He said Brett was a sadist just because she has a good, healthy stomach."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Maybe we should just stop trying to define someone’s interests from afar, and labeling them as sadists when they make a choice that we find incomprehensible.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
Instead, she adds clever touches to an extent that this book could be used as a blueprint for a world run by passive-aggressive sadists.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
"We didn't support sadists who had no place to exercise their practices," Kwasniewski said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021
“One imagines a furtive audience of sad saps and sadists, trench-coated lurkers and wan shut-ins.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2019
The degree of cruelty varies, but all sadists should be shunned.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
