a person who gets pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from hurting other people
sadistic adjective:
He took sadistic pleasure in taunting the boy.
sadistically adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sadist is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sadist a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sadist is tagged as noun.
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