Crossword-Solution: SADISTS 7 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

We have 37 clues for the answer “SADISTS”

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They enjoy being cruel 1 answer
Ones who are hurting? 1 answer
Ones who get their kicks from giving kicks 1 answer
People who enjoy tormenting others. 1 answer
People who revel in cruelty 1 answer
Punitive persons 1 answer
Puzzle makers, so it seems 1 answer
Roman holiday observers 1 answer
Simon Legree and his ilk 1 answer
Simon Legrees 1 answer
Merciless people 1 answer
They like making people squirm 1 answer
They like to hurt 1 answer
They love making people smart 1 answer
They'll always hurt the one they love 1 answer
Those enjoying others suffering 1 answer
Torturers, for example 1 answer
Writers of tough crosswords, some say 1 answer
Your pain is their gain 1 answer
Mean group 1 answer
Creators of difficult puzzles, seemingly 1 answer
Crossword editors, some say 1 answer
Cruel folks 1 answer
Dominatrices, e.g. 1 answer
Extremely cruel people 1 answer
Followers of the Marquis 1 answer
Followers of the cruel Marquis 1 answer
Hurtful bunch 1 answer
Hurting souls 1 answer
Lovers of cruelty 1 answer
Masochists' counterparts 1 answer
Masochists' opposites 1 answer
Barbarous bunch 2 answers
Cruel sorts 3 answers
Cruel bunch 3 answers
Cruel ones 4 answers
Cruel people 4 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SADISTS (5)

Composed of frugal ascetics and avaricious operators, merciless romanticists and hard nosed pragmatists, murderous sadists and refined intellectuals, nationalist Croats and Serb-haters who had no coherent national agenda bar the mass slaughter of the Serbs.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Sam Vaknin 2003
The trouble was that I didn’t really want Scarmann, I wanted that pair of mental sadists up in my apartment who were holding a knife against Martha’s throat.
Stop Look and Dig George O. Smith 2006
The sufferings which the wives of some sadists have to undergo are known only to themselves and to a few--very few--physicians.
Woman William J. Robinson 2007
The goulashes made him think of being coerced to trudge around with his brothers along the edges of creeks and canals where they, guffawing sadists and martinets, made him abduct and mutilate crawdads to recognize that he was no better than any other creature of the natural order that gloated at itself as one individual in a species of myriad predators.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Steven Sills 2008
The results of the foregoing examination proved conclusively that Tosetti was innocent of a crime which can only be committed by sadists, idiots, and the most degenerate types of madmen, like Vacher and Verzeni and all bestial criminals, who have reached the summit of criminality and unite in their persons the greatest number of morbid physical and psychic characteristics.
Criminal Man Gina Lombroso-Ferrero 2009

Quotes with SADISTS (3)

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.
Mary Horlock
Like the psychological model outlined above, the psychiatric understanding of ’organised paedophilia’ is a framework that is focused primarily on individual psychological factors and overlooks the role of violence in criminal groups and the contexts in which such groups emerge. The underlying assumption of literature on ‘organised paedophilia’ is that members of sexually abusive groups are motivated by a pathological sexual interest in children but this does not accord with e…
Michael Salter Organised Sexual Abuse
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.
Anna C. Salter Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 44 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).