sadistn.adj.

1892 C. G. Chaddock tr. R. von Krafft-Ebing Psychopathia Sexualis 73 Finally arrested, he was recognized as a sadist [Ger. einen Sadisten], who, at the instant of stabbing, had an ejaculation.

1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Sadist, an individual affected with Sadism.

1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method 78 Very many tormentors of animals are..sadists.

1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 760 Those mucky little sadists, Stalky and Co.

1954 B. Karpman Sexual Offender xix. 355 Every sadist possesses certain elements of masochism.

1974 J. Bancroft Deviant Sexual Behaviour v. 120 Some interesting studies of suppression of fantasy have been carried out. An example is a sadist treated by Marks.

1975 Post-Crescent (Wisconsin) 15 May 19/2 I believe the girl is a sadist. She loves to lead guys on.

1982 A. Taylor Caroline Minuscule iii. 26 She looked like a battered innocent and Dougal found the sight so pleasurable that he wondered if he was a latent sadist.

2007 Observer (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Sport section) 22 The people they're discussing are gym teachers and therefore disciplinarians at best and sadists at worst.

1919 H. Walpole Secret City i. x. 68 There was something almost sadist..in the old gentleman's observation of Markovitch's labours.

1920 Glasgow Herald 9 Sept. 6 The fatal policy which has given a handful of political cranks, aided by hired mercenaries and sadist abnormals, the right to stand for Russia.

1971 Moberly (Missouri) Monitor-Index 20 May 8/3 You..call a person insensitive, inconsiderate and sadist just because she telephones a friend in the middle of the night to tell her a mutual acquaintance has died?

2007 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 20 June It's difficult to understand why the courts were so tolerant of ragging—a practice that is heinous and sadist in nature.