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
• Also alchemists, sadists, diabolists, absinthe fiends, and the occasional haunted dramatist.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024