Definition of sadistic
: of, relating to, or characterized by sadism
- sadistic fantasies
- a leg … sawed off in sections by a sadistic surgeon
- —The New Yorker
- For my 41st birthday, an especially sadistic buddy gave me a video of me falling off my skateboard nearly 160 times.
- —Bret Anthony Johnston
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sadistically
play \sə-ˈdi-sti-k(ə-)lē also sā- or sa-\ adverb-
- … in a gangster story realism requires that the hoods kill each other off and do so sadistically.
- —Robert F. Moss
