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sadismPsychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by inflicting pain on another person. The term was coined in reference to the marquis de Sade, who chronicled his own such practices. Sadism is often linked to masochism, and many individuals who have one tendency also have the other. sadism [′sā‚diz·əm] (psychology) Sexual perversion in which one derives pleasure from inflicting physical or mental cruelty upon another. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Her Mildred in Of Human Bondage (1934) sadistically toys with the club-footed Philip Carey (Leslie Howard). Perhaps the egregiously cruel, the wantonly violent (Timothy McVeigh once referred to the nineteen young children who died in the Murrah daycare center as "collateral damage"), and the sadistically homicidal acts of murderers justify society's thirst for retribution and reprisal. The most extreme metaphor of power and nature is the Bloodthirsty Shark, Fifo's favorite henchman, trained to sadistically kill and rape dissidents, or the "rodents" who gnaw away at the island's base to escape the island prison. |
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