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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sadist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Andrea's father was an absolute sadist. It's not surprising she hates him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He brings out the sadist in me.
▪ He says it's some kind of sadist that carries out this kind of attack.
▪ Karl's a sadist, he enjoys inflicting pain.
▪ The man was a raving sadist, she thought, and then realised it was a requirement of his job.
▪ The man was clearly a sadist.
▪ The sodomite captain proves brave, the sadist a bungler.
▪ They tend to be the sadists.
▪ You turned me into a goddamn sadist be-cause of your goddamn stinking country stubbornness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sadist

1892, from sadism + -ist.

Wiktionary
sadist

n. One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

WordNet
sadist

n. someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others [ant: masochist]

Wikipedia
Sadist

Sadist refers to:

  • Sadistic personality disorder, is the term for individuals who derive pleasure from the suffering of others (see also Antisocial personality disorder)

Sadist may also refer to:

Sadist (band)

Sadist is a death metal band from Genoa, Italy, founded in 1991. The band split up in 2000 after releasing their Lego album, but reunited in 2005 and released their self-titled album in 2007.

Sadist (album)

Sadist is the eponymous fifth full-length studio album by the Italian progressive death metal band Sadist, released on April 17, 2007 by Beyond Productions. This release marks Sadist's return not repeating styles from their last release but taking their musical styles back to the " Tribe era".

Usage examples of "sadist".

When it came down to it, the Sadist could be a more elegantly vicious enemy than the High Lord of Hell would ever dream of being.

He was the holiest of holy sadists, but in truth he was also something else.

Joel as a sexual sadist and necrophiliac who also suffered from mood swings and personality disorders, he was certain that Joel was sane and had known exactly what he was doing during each and every homicide.

He had been diagnosed as a psychopath and sexual sadist and had a history of assaults against women.

Rorschach blots interpreted by the patient had become Rorschach blobs manipulated unconsciously by the patient, and Phillips could classify the crew members with certainty: schizoids, cycloids, paranoids, homosexuals, sadists, incipient homicides psychopaths.

Apparently she was one of those cipherlike people that true sadists keep around.

He was not reassured by an endless series of stories about sadists, supermen, and crafty business executives.

For Wolfowitz, Saddam’s Baathist party was a Nazi-like organization of gangsters and sadists.

One of the most powerful human beings in the state of Florida, and here his lofty shining universe had been reduced to a tabloid freak showdog dismemberers and Barbie-doll fetishists and armed punk-haired sadists who crammed rodents down his gullet!

One of the most powerful human beings in the state of Florida, and here his lofty shining universe had been reduced to a tabloid freak show—dog dismemberers and Barbie-doll fetishists and armed punk-haired sadists who crammed rodents down his gullet!

Foot fuckers, sadist pimps, Chrissie's pimp himself--in the Frisco City Jail when Chrissie was snuffed.

The number one Grand Panjandrum himself, not some minor sadist with a talent for extracting toenails or setting fire to eyelids, but the great haramzada in person.

Most of all, of course, he's a crazy little sadist with an itchy trigger finger.

Whenever an officer was determined to be definitely militaristic, jingoistic, a potential sadist, he was placed in a key position over forces actually ready to exert armed force.

He bears no resemblance to his two brothers I put behind bars, who were Grade A vicious sadists.