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sadis·tic

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  1. sadisticadjective

    deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

    Antonyms:
    masochistic

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sadistic":

    vicious

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How to use sadistic in a sentence?

  1. Circuit Judge Barrington Parker:

    It sounds sadistic to me.

  2. A.E. Samaan:

    Socialism is submission of the masochistic masses to the will of the sadistic elites.

  3. Marie Curie:

    There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  4. Wilhelm Reich:

    Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  5. Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia:

    Rape is rape, and a marriage license is not an excuse for committing one of society’s most violent and sadistic crimes.


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