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sadistic
1. adj. Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
2. adj. Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
3. adj. (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.

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Example Sentences

You're a sadistic son of a bitch.  I suppose to see anyone unhappy arouses a sadistic tendency in coarser minds.  Detectives hunting the sadistic killer of an artist attacked while jogging in a park yesterday painstakingly recreated the moments before and after her death.

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