sadist

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On Wednesday, chief prosecutor Ute Lindemann described Brückner as a "dangerous, psychopathic sadist" and said he should be placed in preventive detention after serving his sentence.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024

Fromm covers much of this ground again, analyzing Heinrich Himmler and Josef Stalin as case studies of the sadist driven by the need to dominate.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2024

Turn the page and you may give up several hours to a dizzying reading experience, less roller coaster than Tilt-a-Whirl manned by a clever but lazy sadist.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022

Santoro’s complex performance is key to this transition: Our perception of him changes from a one-dimensional sadist to a product of his environment, a man who does what he must to climb the social ladder.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

For the first time, I recognize Eric for what he is: an Erudite disguised as a Dauntless, a genius as well as a sadist, a hunter of the Divergent.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth