sadism
Example Sentences
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Either way, making us think about Stephen Miller’s prowess is a small act of sadism.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
The boys and men - whom Ms Barrett calls "crimefluencers" - subscribe to a variety of ideologies, including including nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
Of course we’ll free the hostages, we hate sadism!
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
If the movie “X” could be described as “Boogie Nights” meets “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” then its prequel “Pearl” feels like watching Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” develop a penchant for sadism.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2022
The world was full of fathers—was therefore full of misery; full of mothers—therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts—full of madness and suicide.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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