sadistic

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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Echoing that film, Mr. Wright goes over the top presenting a sleekly designed but sadistic authoritarian regime characterized by exuberantly dumb sloganeering and bloodlust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sentencing Plumb, Mr Justice Murray described some of his plans as "particularly sadistic, brutal and degrading", and said he had "no doubt that this was all considerably more than a fantasy".

From BBC

Much of the book makes for extremely harrowing reading, as Ms Giuffre details the sadistic abuse that Epstein put her through.

From BBC

At his sentencing, judge Mr Justice Murray said some of the plans Plumb discussed online were "sadistic, brutal and degrading".

From BBC