Sadistic vs Malice - What's the difference?
sadistic | malice |
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.
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
As an adjective sadistic
is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.As a noun malice is
intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.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.
malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
