sadistic
Example Sentences
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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.”
U.S. officials said those sadistic methods helped the cartel intimidate its rivals.
From Washington Post
It's a movement rooted in a deeply sadistic urge to inflict pain on other people for having very normal, natural, and universal desires, such as the desire to have sex without making babies.
From Salon
“They were not created with a sadistic mind-set.”
From New York Times
In a lawsuit filed in Jan. 21, 2021, attorneys for the woman called the officer’s actions “brazen, malicious, sadistic, offensive to human dignity and cruel.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
