Painful and Sadistic

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Painful adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.

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

Nearby Words: pain, pained, painfully, painless, paining

Sadistic adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.

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

Nearby Words: sadism, sadistically, sadist

Especially deviant vampires may purposely abuse the fact that vampire bites can be painful to get sadistic kicks while they sink their fangs into a victim.

Source: Hemo Erotic
The title character from Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island is a sadistic, childish Mad God who forces the islanders to go along with his insane whims or suffer the (incredibly painful) consequences.

Source: Web Video / The Mysterious Mr. Enter
The writers of Misfits seem to gain some kind of sadistic pleasure out of killing the immortal character Nathan Young week after week in ways so gory and painful that it quickly becomes hilarious.

Source: Immortal Life Is Cheap

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