sadistic
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And no wonder: You needn’t work at a fashion magazine to relate to having a sadistic boss like Meryl Streep’s character in “The Devil Wears Prada.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
“Huck Finn” was the apotheosis of Twain’s gift for truth-telling, as he exposed the sadistic oppression of Black people and made the slave Jim the hero.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
IndieWire's David Ehrlich described the original footage as "so hypnotically sadistic" that the newer material struggles to compete with it.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2024
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, the movie portrays the stoic battle of a taciturn, retired army captain in the mid-18th century as he tries to tame the hostile Jutland landscape and outwit an evil, sadistic local aristocratic.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023
And there are a lot of sadistic head teachers about.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing sadistic
The Catcher in the Rye
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The Book Thief
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Nine
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