サディズム

noun

sadism

Psychiatric term for deriving pleasure from inflicting pain or humiliation. Also used more broadly in everyday language for cruel or domineering behavior.

• 彼かれはサディズムの傾けい向こうがあると診しん断だんされた。

  He was diagnosed with sadistic tendencies.

• その小しょう説せつの悪あく役やくはサディズムに満みちていた。

  The villain in that novel was full of sadism.