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Definition of "sadistic" [sadistic]

  • Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others. (adjective)
  • Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others. (adjective)

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Use "sadistic" in a sentence
  • "This guy was also what we call a sadistic pedophile, which is that sadistic pedophiles often use objects to penetrate children rather than using the penis or the fingers, and that ` s apparently, if the allegations are true, what he did with one little girl."
  • "Prosecutors said Dano Sonnex and Nigel prison Thursday for what he called the sadistic killing of two students who were bound, tortured and stabbed to death in a London apartment last students in a London apartment a year ago."
  • "Back in 1988, he was sentenced to death by a court in Israel after he was identified as the sadistic guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" from the Treblinka concentration camp."