sadism

IPA: sˈeɪdɪzʌm

(chiefly psychiatry) The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
(loosely) Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.

Examples of "sadism" in Sentences

But let's not talk as if sadism is about seeking God and just coming up short.
The show, as Gordon tells Mayer, consists largely of "improvisations in sadism."
I guess you’d have to be from Louisiana to understand this, but that sadism is brewing again.
That overlooks or minimizes the element in sadism (and in all sin) of self-love in preference to other goods, including the Supreme Good.
When those first photos from Abu Ghraib were broadcast around the world five years ago, we told ourselves the sadism was the work of just a few maniacs.
Famous for giving his name to the perversion known as sadism, the Marquis de Sade was initially a doctor, who originated the phrase, "Does it hurt when I do this?"
That the existance of illegal acts of sadism is just as horrifying as mass sadism openly practiced and touted as a virtue by the highest officials in the government?
As for the teacher's motives in accepting to enter into these displacements of identity, they are even more suspect than those of the younger person, to the precise extent that sadism is morally and socially more suspect than masochism.