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unsadistic

adjective

Scrabble 13

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Meanings

adjectiveunsadistic (comparative more unsadistic, superlative most unsadistic)

comparative more unsadistic · superlative most unsadistic

Not sadistic.
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
2 more examples
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

Origin

From un- + sadistic.

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APA

unsadistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsadistic

MLA

“unsadistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsadistic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsadistic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsadistic.

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