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单词 sadistic
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Definition of sadistic in English:

sadistic

adjective səˈdɪstɪksəˈdɪstɪk
  • Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.

    she took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him
    a sadistic killer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Why not call the police brutal, sadistic or even murderous when they act that way?
    • They claim it is not their fault that life can be vulgar, pornographic and sadistic.
    • There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
    • Darkly erotic, sadistic and unsettling, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is regarded as a masterpiece.
    • Police fear the sadistic murderer and rapist John Taylor may have more guilty secrets in his murky past.
    Synonyms
    callous, barbarous, bestial, perverted, vicious, brutal, cruel, savage, fiendish, cold-blooded, inhuman, ruthless, heartless, merciless, pitiless

Derivatives

  • sadistically

  • adverb səˈdɪstɪk(ə)lisəˈdɪstək(ə)li
    • In the South mobs received less opposition from authorities, were more likely to sadistically torture their victims, and were more likely to kill.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A similar visual chemistry is also manifest in the final room, where the sadistically distorted image of Picasso's Acrobat is nicely contrasted with the wholly natural exuberance of Matisse's Nu Bleu and La Chevalure.
      • Their frail 61-year-old victim was sadistically beaten, had boiling water poured over his legs and a bullet shoved in his ear by one of the attackers who threatened to heat it to see if it exploded.
      • On the other hand, a woman who sexually and sadistically toys with male inmates becomes even more monstrous than her male counterparts, who were no doubt equally cruel and depraved.
      • In that same year in Texas, James Byrd Jr. was sadistically chained by his ankles to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death down 3 miles of county road because he was black.

Rhymes

aoristic, artistic, autistic, cystic, deistic, distich, egoistic, fistic, holistic, juristic, logistic, monistic, mystic, puristic, Taoistic, theistic, truistic, veristic

Definition of sadistic in US English:

sadistic

adjectivesəˈdistiksəˈdɪstɪk
  • Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.

    she took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him
    a sadistic killer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Darkly erotic, sadistic and unsettling, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is regarded as a masterpiece.
    • Why not call the police brutal, sadistic or even murderous when they act that way?
    • They claim it is not their fault that life can be vulgar, pornographic and sadistic.
    • There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
    • Police fear the sadistic murderer and rapist John Taylor may have more guilty secrets in his murky past.
    Synonyms
    callous, barbarous, bestial, perverted, vicious, brutal, cruel, savage, fiendish, cold-blooded, inhuman, ruthless, heartless, merciless, pitiless
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