sado
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A person who enjoys causing pain to others for sexual pleasure
- noun
- /ˈseɪdoʊ/
- Offensive
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sádico (coloquial, ofensivo)
- sado-masochism
- sado-masochistic
- concept of sado
Examples
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What's the matter with you, mate? Are you some kind of a sado?
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The film explored the life of a sado who derived pleasure from his partner's pain.
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Many mistakenly associate being a sado with simply enjoying dominance, ignoring the deeper aspects of pain involved.
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In their relationship, she expressed her identity as a sado, enjoying the thrill of inflicting pain in a consensual way.
Synonyms
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8.4
A person who enjoys hurting other people
is an informal slang label rather than the standard or clinical term
How Sadistic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sado as a noun comes from the name Marquis de Sade and the word sadism, which means 'pleasure from hurting others'. So a sado is a person who likes to cause pain for sexual pleasure.