sadist: [19] The terms sadist and sadism commemorate the so-called Marquis de Sade (in fact he was a count), the French writer who lived between 1740 and 1815. Towards the end of the 18th century he produced several pornographic novels, whose theme of sexual gratification through (among other things) the inflicting of pain led in the late 19th century to the use of his name by psychiatrists to describe such behaviour. By the 1930s sadism had become a general term for ‘gratuitous cruelty’.
sadist (n.)
1892, from sadism + -ist.
雙語例句
1. The man was a sadist who tortured animals and people.
那個男人是個施虐狂，喜歡虐待動物和人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He acted a sadist in that TV play.
他在那電視劇中演一個施虐狂.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. After all, Clinton was only a minor - league sadist.
畢竟, 克林頓只是有一點小小的虐待傾向.
來自電影對白
4. However as far as we know, he was not a sadist.