Usually means: Deriving pleasure from others' pain.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word sadistically:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadistically: Merriam-Webster
  2. sadistically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sadistically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sadistically: Vocabulary.com
  5. sadistically: Wordnik
  6. sadistically: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sadistically: Wiktionary
  8. sadistically: Dictionary.com
  9. sadistically: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadistically: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadistically: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sadistically: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sadistically)

▸ adverb:  In a sadistic manner.
▸ adverb:  In a particularly horrible or brutal manner, as painfully as possible.

Similar:
sadomasochistically, masochistically, cruelly, psychopathically, sociopathically, brutalistically, perversely, depravedly, torturedly, heartlessly, more...

Opposite:
masochistically, compassionately, empathetically

Types:
cruel, mean, nasty, heartless, unfeeling, pitiless, sadistic, more...

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Similar:
sadomasochistically, masochistically, cruelly, psychopathically, sociopathically, brutalistically, perversely, depravedly, torturedly, heartlessly, more...

Opposite:
masochistically, compassionately, empathetically

Types:
cruel, mean, nasty, heartless, unfeeling, pitiless, sadistic, more...



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