sadismnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈseɪ.dɪ.zəm/us/ˈsæd.ɪ.zəm/the activity of getting pleasure, sometimes sexual, from being cruel to or hurting another person
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
- acerbic
- acidly
- backbite
- backbiting
- backhanded
- barbaric
- bilious
- cruelty
- cutthroat
- fiendish
- hard-hearted
- have a heart of stone idiom
- insensible
- malign
- pitiless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadist
- savagery
- waspish
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