sadistic
adj/səˈdɪstɪk/
Etymology From sadist + -ic.
1
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
2
Of behaviour which takes pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
3
Colloquial Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
- Derived terms
- anal-sadistic, necrosadistic, nonsadistic, sadistically, sadisticness, sadistic personality disorder, unsadistic, unsadistically, zoosadistic
- Related terms
- sadism