unsadistic

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sadistic.

Adjective

unsadistic (comparative more unsadistic, superlative most unsadistic)

1. 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.