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unsadistic

unsadistic adjective: not sadistic.

Adjective

unsadistic (comparative more unsadistic, superlative most unsadistic)

  1. Not sadistic.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of unsadistic

comparativemore unsadistic
superlativemost unsadistic

Origin of unsadistic

From un- + sadistic.

Questions about unsadistic

What does unsadistic mean?
Unsadistic means not sadistic.
What part of speech is unsadistic?
Unsadistic is an adjective.

Words near unsadistic in the dictionary

  1. unsaddle
  2. unsaddled
  3. unsaddles
  4. unsaddling
  5. unsaddlings
  6. unsadistic
  7. unsadistically
  8. unsadly
  9. unsadness
  10. unsafe
  11. unsafe sex

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