Sadistic
Sadistic adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
Tyrannical and sadistic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tyrannical" instead an adjective "Sadistic".
Tyrannical
Tyrannical adjective - Exercising power or authority without interference by others.
Sadistic and tyrannical are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Sadistic" instead an adjective "Tyrannical".
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Is a Crapshoot: Korrok is a violent, tyrannical, evil, petty, narcissistic, sadistic, racist, homophobic, know-it-all organic supercomputer from another dimension, with the maturity of a 13-year-old playing an online game.
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The music video for Sadistic Music Factory is about someone having escaped a tyrannical factory owner.
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An obsessive and sadistic painter cannot paint anything he hasn't seen, so when he is commissioned to paint a picture of Hell by the tyrannical Japanese lord he serves, he tortures his apprentices to get the references he needs.
Source: Aesop Collateral Damage
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