sadic

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adjective

Sadistic.

OriginFrench sadique →
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Meanings

adjectivesadic (comparative more sadic, superlative most sadic)

comparative more sadic · superlative most sadic · alternative Sadic

  1. Sadistic.

    Nothing but the infernal cruelty of their interview of the morning could have forced him to make a proposal of illicit intercourse to a young lady to whom hitherto he had spoken not even one word of affection. It was an effect of a Sadic kind.

    1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 349

Origin

  1. Frenchsadique
  2. Englishsadic

From the Marquis de Sade + -ic, probably after French sadique.

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