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What does sadistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
  2. Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
  3. (colloquial) Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
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The sadistic Hapsburg landburgher was clearly modelled on a Hitler-era Gauleiter, or military governor.
The violent sadistic few tend to go on with maiming and violence until someone dies or they are caged.
Its critics hypothesize a sadistic world of human crop, engineered super-armies, and Frankenstein's monsters.
In my day, when a footballer went six feet in the air it's because he was propelled there by some sadistic bleeder of a full-back.
This particular prototype can be described as an aggressive and sadistic femme fatale who physically maltreats her male subordinates.
There always seems to be at least one sadistic guy among the hazers who just gets pleasure from making people suffer.

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