How do you use Sadism in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Sadism in a sentence
Sadism meaning
- The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
- Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
- Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
Synonyms of Sadism
Using Sadism
- The main meaning on this page is: The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity. | Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others. | Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
- Useful related words include: sexual pleasure.
- In the example corpus, sadism often appears in combinations such as: sadism and, of sadism, and sadism.
Context around Sadism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sadism
- In this selection, "sadism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particular, oral, horrifying and though stand out and add context to how "sadism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include animal or sadism and assumed that sadism in men. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sadism" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sadism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Any deprivation beyond that suggests a tendency towards sadism. (9 words)
And, he says, the violence often included “truly horrifying sadism”. (10 words)
We are inured to his corruption, his sadism, and his anarchy. (11 words)
They have served as the musical embodiment of Hannibal Lecter’s perversely rational sadism in Silence of the Lambs(2011) the Goldberg voices doggedly follow one another in exact canonic imitation, like the unhinged F.B.I. director tailing his enemies. (41 words)
Green and co-writer Danny McBride understand that they have a balance to strike between antisocial genre expectations and pro-social societal imperatives,but as the movie progresses, they more often defer to sadism over compassion. (36 words)
Because the pleasure or power in looking at the victim figures prominently in sadism and masochism, Sartre was able to link these phenomena to his famous philosophy of the "Look of the Other". (33 words)
Damn - what kind of latent sadism has to be going on in your head for you to think a crying, humiliated child is a cute piece of decor? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Finally Jones notes that when more normal aspects of sexuality are repressed, regressed forms may be expressed, in particular sadism ; he felt that oral sadism is integral in vampiric behaviour.
And, he says, the violence often included “truly horrifying sadism”.
He often twists the dreams of his victims before killing them – pure torture and sadism.
In this uncertainty, doing nothing seemed a better option than stepping out of line and facing the sadism of the guards and the certainty of an immediate and violent death.
It’s a safe bet that the Dark Aeldar seek slaves from defenseless worlds within the Expanse to satisfy their sadism, though there might be greater reason for their presence.
Sadism was revealed to be the most searched for sex fetish worldwide with nearly 10 million average searches each year.
Any deprivation beyond that suggests a tendency towards sadism.
The Sentencing Council, a public body sponsored by the Ministry Of Justice, defines category A images as those involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal, or sadism.
But conservatives also know that the public is repulsed by open displays of sadism and hatred, so instead we get this pursed-lip, praying-for-you condescension, clad in pseudo-feminist drag.
Damn - what kind of latent sadism has to be going on in your head for you to think a crying, humiliated child is a cute piece of decor?
In such cases, the offender is given a drug, such as Leuprorelin, which has been used to treat difficulties in controlling sexual arousal, intrusive sexual fantasies, sadism or other “dangerous” tendencies.
We are inured to his corruption, his sadism, and his anarchy.
Still, a movement fueled by sadism will delight in admissions that it has caused pain.
Green and co-writer Danny McBride understand that they have a balance to strike between antisocial genre expectations and pro-social societal imperatives,but as the movie progresses, they more often defer to sadism over compassion.
Nor was he ready to bend to Trump’s brand of sadism.
They have served as the musical embodiment of Hannibal Lecter’s perversely rational sadism in Silence of the Lambs(2011) the Goldberg voices doggedly follow one another in exact canonic imitation, like the unhinged F.B.I. director tailing his enemies.
Although the primary focus is on sexual behavior in men, there are sections on Sadism in Woman, Masochism in Woman, and Lesbian Love.
Because the pleasure or power in looking at the victim figures prominently in sadism and masochism, Sartre was able to link these phenomena to his famous philosophy of the "Look of the Other".
Before Deleuze, however, Sartre had presented his own theory of sadism and masochism, at which Deleuze's deconstructive argument, which took away the symmetry of the two roles, was probably directed.
Both Krafft-Ebing and Freud assumed that sadism in men resulted from the distortion of the aggressive component of the male sexual instinct.
Common combinations with sadism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sadism and 11×
- of sadism 7×
- and sadism 5×
- sadism in 3×
- sadism masochism 2×
- his sadism 2×
- sexual sadism 2×