Sadistic vs Malevolent - What's the difference?
sadistic | malevolent |
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.
having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others
having an evil or harmful influence
As adjectives the difference between sadistic and malevolent
is that sadistic is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others while malevolent is having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.sadistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.