sadism

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If you want to know how you score for dark tetrad traits, you can do the Dark Triad Personality Test and Sadism Test online.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022

Sadism towards the audience aside, however, the main point of a season premiere on a highly-serialized show like Game of Thrones is to provide the heroes with motivation for their battles to come.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2019

But there is no reason to suspect Weismann of Sadism.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

It is absurd to say to a man like Macdonald: "Your punishing is 'nothing but' Sadism."

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

Sadism appears to be most often an effect of hereditary alcoholic blastophthoria.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste