unsadistic en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + sadistic.
Meanings
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Not sadistic.
The real enigma is the honest, unsadistic German majority that unleashes them rather than throwing them in jail.
1988, Michael Robert Marrus, The Holocaust in History, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85, →ISBN:An economic slaying and a salutary but not therefore altogether unsadistic rape.
1977 December, Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fiction), Boston: Gregg Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:His unsadistic, unvengeful commitment to the telling of truth; his wariness of the rhetoric of conviction.
2016, Adam Phillips, Promises, Promises: Essays on literature and psychoanalysis, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unsadistic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unsadistic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |