a person who gets pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from hurting other people
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NAmE//səˈdɪstɪk//
adjective He took sadistic pleasure in taunting the boy. NAmE//səˈdɪstɪkli//
adverbSee sadist in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: sadist