English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + sadistic
Adjective[edit]
unsadistic (comparative more unsadistic, superlative most unsadistic)
- Not sadistic.
2016, Adam Phillips, Promises, Promises: Essays on literature and psychoanalysis, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:His unsadistic, unvengeful commitment to the telling of truth; his wariness of the rhetoric of conviction.
1988, Michael Robert Marrus, The Holocaust in History, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85, →ISBN:The real enigma is the honest, unsadistic German majority that unleashes them rather than throwing them in jail.
1977 December, Fritz Leiber, Swords and Ice Magic (Fiction), Boston: Gregg Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:An economic slaying and a salutary but not therefore altogether unsadistic rape.
