How to Use sadistic in a Sentence

sadistic

adjective

• The point of it for him is the sadistic boot-on-face-forever.
  — WIRED, 24 Sep. 2021
• For all his sadistic faults, at least Bob is a What About Bob? fan.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2024
• Fred was known to have sadistic tendencies and wooed a teenage Rose to join him on his killing sprees.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 May 2025
• Guests will also be stalked by The Fiend, Bray’s sadistic alter ego.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 29 July 2025
• Is there a sadistic impulse in playing with the viewer that way?
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
• The sadistic Lang, however, basks in such evil and partakes of it a little, too.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 May 2025
• The text treats it as a matter of course, despite the fact that death by drowning in one’s own tears is uniquely sadistic.
  — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020
• Unlike the others who were sadistic killers who took pleasure in their acts, Berkowitz’s crimes felt more like a cry for help.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 29 July 2025
• Along the way, guests will be stalked by the eerie presence of The Fiend, Bray's sadistic alter ego, who looms within the shadows and beckons them to let him in.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
• What a nasty, sadistic, evil regime, the Saudi government is.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• During that time, Anne was at the mercy of a sadistic governess, Miss Bonner, who tied her hands to the bedposts at night.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• But this version, more sadistic than the last, still didn't satisfy.
  — ArsTechnica, 14 June 2025
• At first, Caleb doesn't believe this is the real Frankie, sure this is another one of Halores's sadistic tricks.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• Her sadistic smirk is still shocking after all these years.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2024
• To quash the ever-present threat of a revolt, punishment was sadistic and frequent.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• Records from phone accounts also tied him to sadistic calls made to the families of victims.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• Like the best thrillers of this ilk, though, its darkest impulses do not weigh it down but rather give it a sadistic, jet-black comic edge.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• Without the sadistic games going on, the show lacks momentum.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
• Even in the future, though, the in-crowd sucks, and Mary Agnes’ charming crush turns out to have a sadistic streak sharpened by technology.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
• That is sadistic behaviour, a way for a person who feels small to taste a little power.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
• In a parallel universe version of Tokyo, a band of young people are forced to compete in sadistic games modeled on the suites in a deck of cards.
  — Rory Doherty, Time, 27 June 2025
• Hotel Fear is very difficult viewing, and the film’s treatment of Rosa borders on the sadistic.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
• In the season premiere, it is revealed that one of them, Lindy (Madison Elise Rogers), has assumed the role of lover and trainee in the ways of his sadistic punishment fetish.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
• In reality, Mittens was a stone-cold killer with a sadistic streak.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• The movie is a beastly thing, and proud of it—a gaily sadistic kerfuffle, from which all traces of tenderness have been expunged.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• The switchbacks are torture: tons of little, sadistic hairpin turns.
  — Leyton Cassidy, Longreads, 7 May 2024
• Obé – pronounced 'obey' – has that sweet, sweaty irreverence of the coolest new (somewhat sadistic – in a good way) fitness clubs around.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
• Even Roose Bolton treats his horrible, sadistic son better than this.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• The actor, who tends to embody movie monsters, is up against a sadistic Anthony Hopkins in the thriller, which hits theaters on March 21.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
• The film culminates in an incident of body-shaming that comes close to sadistic slapstick.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024