sadistically
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8.4
- adverb
- /səˈdɪstɪkli/
- Offensive
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sádicamente
- In the dark comedy, the character's sadistically cruel jokes made everyone uncomfortable.
- sadistically tortured
- sadistically laugh
And he's beaten sadistically by his Greek teacher teachers.
- And he's beaten sadistically by his Greek teacher teachers.
- And at that point, he finds out that the founding father really was a like sadistically vicious, horrible creature.
Examples
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The bully laughed as he sadistically tormented the younger kids on the playground.
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The villain in the movie enjoyed inflicting pain on his victims sadistically.
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But I, I I never knew anybody that just did it it sadistically for the sake of it.
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You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise.
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One of you has a brilliantly imaginative and sadistically effective mind.
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However, that moral conflict is not a situation of dirty hands—because the evil course of conduct is sadistically chosen for its own sake rather than out of a desire to fulfill some pressing moral duty.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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9.3
In a cruel way that shows pleasure at other people's pain
Antonyms
How Sadistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sadistically comes from the name of the French writer de Sade, who wrote stories where people took 'pleasure' in hurting others. So to act sadistically is to behave in a cruel way and to enjoy causing someone pain.