sadists
- plural of sadist.
Example Sentences
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"Maybe we should just stop trying to define someone’s interests from afar, and labeling them as sadists when they make a choice that we find incomprehensible."
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024
Instead, she adds clever touches to an extent that this book could be used as a blueprint for a world run by passive-aggressive sadists.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
What I have noticed is that all of these lifting, pulling, pushing, stretching and bending exercises were designed by sadists.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2019
“One imagines a furtive audience of sad saps and sadists, trench-coated lurkers and wan shut-ins.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019
The most pronounced childish egotists may become the most helpful and self-sacrificing citizens; the majority of idealists, humanitarians, and protectors of animals have developed from little sadists and animal tormentors.
From Reflections on War and Death by Freud, Sigmund
