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Meanings of sadist in English

Portuguese
pessoa sádica
Catalan
sàdic

Someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others.

pessoa sádica
Usage of sadist in English
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The sadist specialised in people who were in a position of dependence.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
2
JK Simmons got his well-deserved best supporting actor as the bullet-headed sadist.
The Guardian
3
Oscar Ortega has a reputation for being a bit of a sadist.
The Irish Times
4
Grey instead explains to us in 559 pages why he's a sadist.
The Irish Times
5
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Corruptible sadist... Christopher Fulford as Inspector Truscott in Loot.
The Guardian
6
Are you a greater sadist than the 'lovely' Counselor Quorin, then?
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
7
As before, an anonymous sadist is trying to manipulate people, with fatal consequences.
The Guardian
8
Even Freud knew it: every sadist becomes a masochist at last.
The illuminatus! trilogy
9
And the bath thing wasn't part of the deal, you sadist.
Stolen heat
10
But what sort of sadist would want to watch his agony further prolonged?
The Guardian
11
The Countess was notorious as an inhuman sadist long before her hygienic fixation.
The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
12
Fletcher's steely calm makes her a potent villain, but not a sadist exactly.
The Guardian
13
You recall the sadist Duke Kyrg, do you not, your majesty?
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
14
Any sufficiently advanced alien intelligence is indistinguishable from God-theangry monotheistic sadist subtype.
The Fuller Memorandum
15
He might be a scoundrel, but he wasn't a bloody sadist.
The notorious scoundrel
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He seemed to be only a poor devil, not a sadist.
Who killed palomino molero?
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pessoa sádica
Catalan
sàdic
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