How to Use sadist in a Sentence
sadist
noun-
On the other side is a sly sadist named Ketchum, played by Stephen Dorff.
— Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021 -
But, yes, the Whitecloak encounter has also been tweaked to give us more of our favorite sadist.
— Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2021 -
The hold of this little sadist, Daniel Ortega, and his comrades over Nicaragua has to break sometime.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022 -
Tracy plays Hyde as a sadist, rather than id personified à la March.
— David Mermelstein, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022 -
Here are stories about that sadist Putin, bombing hospitals.
— The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023 -
His right side becomes a sadist, obsessed with systems of torture; his left is now possessed by a sickly goodness and grace; both sides are in love with the same woman, Pamela.
— Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023 -
Wan delivers the kind of hilariously sick climax that only a sadist would spoil.
— Jennifer Yuma, Variety, 11 Sep. 2021 -
Rappaport strikes the right balance between making Paar both savior and sadist to Levant, and Wyse never overstays his welcome as the wide-eyed, impressionable Max.
— Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2023 -
Still, Putin is unlikely to repeat the same mistake twice: allowing a private army led by a hotheaded sadist to take an outsized role in Russia’s security.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 -
Depression is a white supremacist, a malignant narcissist, a rape apologist, a gaslighter, Iago, a sadist, a masochist, a hot Lego underfoot, a mind made hell.
— Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020 -
Thankfully, a number of cycling apparel brands think differently than the sadist who created that old PDM jersey.
— Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 1 June 2021 -
Unlike other directorate heads, the majority of whom could be sorted in a Venn diagram between toady and sadist with broad overlap, Ivan was inherently good-natured.
— Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021 -
In each, a judgmental but creative sadist named Jigsaw devises elaborate traps to punish wrongdoers in viciously specific ways, such as a liar getting his tongue ripped out.
— Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021 -
In more ordinary circumstances, however, his need to dominate and take command wasn’t much different from that of his own villain, the controlling, paramilitary sadist Miss Trunchbull.
— Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022 -
Indeed, aspects of the asylum process that Schmidtke, Isha, and Samina recounted sounded more like a sadist’s fantasy vision of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy than rational immigration policy.
— Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023 -
In this piercing investigation of memory, loss and love, former U.S. poet laureate Trethewey shares the story of her mother's murder by her second husband, a violent, manipulative sadist.
— Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Polumbaum countered in his closing argument Tuesday that Peña’s mental issues were nonsense coming from a manipulative, predatory sadist.
— Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022 -
In this piercing investigation of memory, loss and love, former U.S. poet laureateTrethewey shares the story of her mother’s murder by her second husband, a violent, manipulative sadist.
— Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020
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