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What does sadism mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychiatry) The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
  2. Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
  3. (in general) Deliberate cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
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They killed him with an indescribable sadism in order to spread unease and fear amongst the professionals who work in the different media which ETA has targeted.
Police sadism came to a head with the intervention of three night patrols of Guatemala city police who, in the early morning hours of 4 March 1990, forced two street boys to swallow their plastic bags.
On joining Isis, however, the sadism that Kernberg warns of in malignant narcissism becomes clear, in the evident pleasure with which he kills aid workers and journalists, and in the exultant torture he metes out beforehand.
The second caveat is that antisocial preferences, such as sadism, envy and resentment, have to be excluded.
From the way the subjects of masochism and sadism have been processed and reviewed by psychoanalysts, one develops the doubt about their exactitude.
Mr Brown's, by contrast, might be termed the sadism strategy.

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