sadistic
/səˈdɪstɪk
/adjective
Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others: she took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him a sadistic killer...
- They claim it is not their fault that life can be vulgar, pornographic and sadistic.
- Police fear the sadistic murderer and rapist John Taylor may have more guilty secrets in his murky past.
- Why not call the police brutal, sadistic or even murderous when they act that way?
Synonyms
callous, barbarous, bestial, perverted, vicious, brutal, cruel, savage, fiendish, cold-blooded, inhuman, ruthless, heartless, merciless, pitiless
Derivatives
sadistically
/ adverb ...- 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.
- 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.
- In the South mobs received less opposition from authorities, were more likely to sadistically torture their victims, and were more likely to kill.
Rhymes
- elemi
- elenchus
- Eleonora's falcon
- elephant
- elephant bird
- elephant ear
- elephant fish
- elephant grass
- elephant hawkmoth
- elephantiasis
- elephantine
- elephantoid
- Elephant Pass
- elephant seal
- elephant shrew
- elephant-snout fish
- Eleusinian mysteries
- Eleuthera
- elev.
- elevate
- elevated
- elevation
- elevational
- elevator
- elevator music