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  • adjective sadistic

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Examples

  • While there is a tendency towards extremes in portraying characters like Malum - a sadic bully with an excuse - or the Portreeve - a corrupt, stop-at-nothing and the author really means it, for preserving his personal power and fortune - Brynd, Jeryd and especially Beami counterbalance that well and who knows, as desperate war comes to Villiren there may even be redemption for some.

    "City of Ruin" by Mark Newton (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • While there is a tendency towards extremes in portraying characters like Malum - a sadic bully with an excuse - or the Portreeve - a corrupt, stop-at-nothing and the author really means it, for preserving his personal power and fortune - Brynd, Jeryd and especially Beami counterbalance that well and who knows, as desperate war comes to Villiren there may even be redemption for some.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Cindy 2010

  • The worse are people without notion,they just annoy and annoy and annoy,I do not even know if they are enjoying what they do,if they are sadic or just very neurotic.

    Harold Bloom, literary lion, loses his shit on Potter fans…again « raincoaster 2007

  • What now looks wanton or sadic seemed in the field inevitable, or just unimportant routine.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • There is something almost sadic in the combination in her character of erotic sensibility with extreme cruelty.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • Maklakoff was a bosom friend of Rasputin, a dissolute evil-liver after the monk's own heart, and more than once had, in my presence, mentioned the names of certain good-looking women in various classes of society who might be invited to become disciples of the sadic Anti-Christ.

    The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia William Le Queux 1895

  • # RE: Rumor: MW2 video leaks COD subscription plan so MS answer avtivision by making gamers paying more, sad adn sadic solution.

    QJ.NET 2010

  • “Look, he’s hurt,” she murmured, in the momentary elation of a sadic impulse to cruelty totally out of keeping with the genuine feelings of affection for Saint-Loup.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

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