Ferocious
Sadistic
Sadistic adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Usage example: the troubled youth is being treated by a psychotherapist for his sadistic urges to hurt animals
Ferocious and sadistic are semantically related. You can use "Ferocious" instead an adjective "Sadistic".
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- Yet Medea's rampage on her unfaithful husband was so ferocious and sadistic that Hera couldn't add anything to that aside from taking back her patronage and letting Medea's revenge stand.
- Her being murdered and two punks putting him in a sack and throwing him in a river enraged him enough to earn himself a place in the Red Lantern Corps, whose rings give them powers comparable to the Green Lanterns but geared to burn down everything... And he's the most sadistic and ferocious of all.
Source: Badass Adorable / Comic Books -
In the book and the animated movie, not only are they more frightening in appearance but they are ferocious, sadistic (they constantly boast about the killing "human beans" as well as the taste of them) and much more abusive to the BFG.
Source: Film / The BFG
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