sadist
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- noun
- /ˈseɪdɪst/
- Offensive
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sádico
- Some people believe that a true sadist enjoys inflicting pain for their own gratification.
- sadist and masochist
- sadistic sadists
- few sadists
Kim Jong Un is a tyrant and a sadist.
- Kim Jong Un is a tyrant and a sadist.
- And when my mother remarried, she married a sadist.
- You know, true psychopaths, true sadists.
- But recognize that there is a type of offender that that is what he wants, and that is your sexual sadist.
- She bit of a sadist really.
- I mean, you have a character who's immortal, whose nickname is the Sadist.
- My SM joke is the the sadist says to the no, the massacre says to the sadist beat me and the sadist says no.
Examples
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He was a sadist and a pig.
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The situation is more complex than that of a few sadists running wild.
Academic text (2004) -
Is it distinct from somebody who is, say, a sadist and just wants to hurt other people?
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What sadist invented this game?
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No, because the sadist enjoys messing with other people.
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Was it in the hands of loving people and not sadists who might abuse it?
Fiction book (1991) -
Honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.
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Like other sadists, Joe possesses more than physical weapons in his arsenal to exert control.
Academic text (1995) -
By the book, he's a sadist. Dr. Lecter: Life's too slippery for books, Clarice.
Fiction book (1991) -
A sadist, a criminal, a depraved animal more ferocious than Jekyll, more monstrous than Frankenstein, more bloody than Dracula.
Synonyms
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A person who enjoys causing pain to others for sexual pleasure
Antonyms
How Sadistic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sadist comes from the name Sade, after the French writer the Marquis de Sade, who wrote stories about people who enjoyed causing pain. So a sadist is a person who gets 'pleasure' from hurting or harming others. It is not related to the word sad meaning 'unhappy'.