How to Use masochistic in a Sentence

masochistic

adjective
Definition of masochisticnext
  • We were doomed from the start, and our mutual masochistic ways should have been the first clue.
    — Heather Weingold, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • Not in a masochistic way, but pain holds hands with pleasure.
    — Vulture, 24 May 2022
  • Grad school actually seems like the move for someone with a fat stack of cash and a masochistic love of work.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Who will summon the skill, the nerve, and, let’s be honest, the masochistic madness to take May’s place is far from decided.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2019
  • Yet the more masochistic elements of the series have been blunted.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Kelce will have to be masochistic to find flaws with his performance Sunday night.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Juarez spent decades at the top of the mountain-bike world, carving out a niche for himself in nearly masochistic endurance events.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2020
  • But right now, Facebook is like some weird barman who is slightly masochistic and enjoys the bar fight.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Those with a masochistic streak can also make use of the huge state-of-the-art fitness center, the Movement Lab, should muscles not yet be crying for some respite.
    — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • But my attraction to masochistic skincare isn't just about guilt.
    — Leigh Cowart, Wired, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The last scene is thus a strange one: powerful, painful and masochistic by implication.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • But only Brandon was daring/masochistic enough to do it for real.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Several sections of the book are given over to masochistic exchanges with white men in airports.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2020
  • What’s giving rise to this seemingly masochistic work trend?
    — Tessa West, Fortune, 21 June 2022
  • So there is this sort of masochistic attraction where physical torture is also what gets you high at the same time.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2021
  • At what point does a quixotic effort become masochistic?
    — Elise Viebeck, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The masochistic double bind is a malign version of the narrator’s problem.
    — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
  • But for a lucky masochistic few, a lifelong passion ignited.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Lorenz’s madcap, slightly masochistic journey in a 120-year-old EV serves as a reminder that electric cars are nothing new.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The question remains whether suffering with Mare by proxy is noble or masochistic.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Everyone has different ideas about what’s funny, and for me the gold standard is dark Jewish humor, the more masochistic and taboo the better.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2020
  • For his opponents, there was a rubbernecking quality to the exercise, a kind of masochistic need to read the tweets in order to feel the outrage.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Bint Aamir was no masochist, but there’s a masochistic element to Zuhour’s ruminations.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • In some cases the children were as young as toddlers and some of the files depicted sadistic or masochistic abuse, authorities said.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This process can sometimes sound like a masochistic cleansing ritual.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the audience squirms in complicity, taking both masochistic and sadistic pleasure at a game of cat and mouse in which the roles keep shifting.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The trashy, hardcore-lite vibe of e-juice calls to mind some small-batch hot sauce brands, which feature imagery of ghosts, skulls, and devils to match the searing, masochistic heat of whatever pepper’s inside.
    — Kate Mooney, Vox, 26 July 2019
  • But Hall isn’t just creating his own masochistic fitness challenges.
    — Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
  • And what fine breed of masochistic producer goes through the Byzantine tumult and fearsome expense of mounting a play for exactly one customer per evening?
    — David Weiss, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
  • To voluntarily advertise the minutiae of your life online, and then, in the same breath, defend against the potential backlash—that is the masochistic agony of posting!
    — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appétit, 7 Dec. 2023

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