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someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others

a sadist who maneuvered to get the job of disciplining the slaves

Each had a hurt he had to forgive: the neighbor who had reported him, the brutal guard, the sadistic soldier.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
Man was forced to accept masochism as his ideal—under the threat that sadism was his only alternative.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
The eyes of someone for whom God was a sadistic old man; the eyes of a small town threadbare decency.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
I have a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
Oh, a sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Handing down bad decisions through sadistic spite, that's the one She dare not indulge.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
An act of madness, partly—of monstrous sadism.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
I think it's crazy and sadistic," I said bitterly.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
So Nick Is a Lying Killer-slash-Sexual Sadist.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
He was — is a messianic sadist, a butcher.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Just my luck, my angel mentor was tilted a bit to the sadistic side.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
Mademoiselle LeFarge has a particularly sadistic smile on her face when we arrive.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
"I'm not sadistic about it," she assured me.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we're all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
Maybe if he knows I helped Rue, he won't choose some slow, sadistic end for me.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
What a sadistic thing to tell a kid.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Or was I a sadist, someone who secretly enjoyed their torment and wanted to witness it firsthand?
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
She turned the page to reveal a photo of a sadistic-looking dentist.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Then I hear him laughing, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes

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