Hateful and Sadistic

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Hateful adjective - Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it.

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Sadistic and hateful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sadistic" instead an adjective "Hateful".

Nearby Words: hate, hated, hatefully, hater

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

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Hateful and sadistic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hateful" instead an adjective "Sadistic".

Nearby Words: sadism, sadistically, sadist

Some players might forget that they're hateful and sadistic as well, until they demonstrate their absolute glee in killing horses and domestic dogs, which goblins consider to be mortal enemies.

Source: Kick The Dog / Other
The downfall started when he was three and his foster mother Sys died of the plague, leaving him to be raised by his sadistic and hateful foster father Gambino.

Source: Used to Be a Sweet Kid
As Roger Ebert put it in his review, "in a comedy the villain is supposed to be funny, and not a hateful, sadistic, egotistical monster".

Source: Film / Wedding Crashers

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