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  • noun Plural form of sadist.

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Examples

  • However, masters, mistresses, and dominants can be described as sadists if they are aroused by pain-play.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • However, masters, mistresses, and dominants can be described as sadists if they are aroused by pain-play.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • However, masters, mistresses, and dominants can be described as sadists if they are aroused by pain-play.

    Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000

  • In other words, the "sadists" in the US and Britain funded the "sadists" in Germany.

    Larisa Alexandrovna: Just Say "NO" to War Crimes! 2008

  • Still spoke not as an official, but in his informal role of neighborhood leader, expressing anger at "sadists" in the precinct but urging the people to be peaceful.

    A Special Supplement: The Occupation of Newark Hayden, Tom 1967

  • The film will be a loose remake of Charles Kaufman’s 1980 cult horror classic which follows a family of sadists which is led by a smart, manipulative mother.

    Jaime King Returning To Horror For Mother’s Day 2009

  • But fetishists and sadists were typically ruled by their passions.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

  • Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths.

    Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go Larry Diamond 2011

  • Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths.

    Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go Larry Diamond 2011

  • Some four decades back, he had been the kind of wide-eyed teenager who thought one could volunteer for the KGB, who had believed the cloak-and-dagger stories, only to find in the organs he had romanticized an atavistic bureaucracy staffed by anti-Semites, paper pushers, careerists, and more than a few sadists.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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