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
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
It helps that Mac, unlike Macbeth, is a dopey underdog and that his nemesis is such a sadist.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
"He said Brett was a sadist just because she has a good, healthy stomach."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
An overwhelming handful, this early history play retains its popularity largely through the audacious villainy of its title character, one of Shakespeare’s most flamboyant sadists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
What I have noticed is that all of these lifting, pulling, pushing, stretching and bending exercises were designed by sadists.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2019
The degree of cruelty varies, but all sadists should be shunned.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
