8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
adjective deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another
originEtymology tree English sadist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English sadistic From sadist + -ic.
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