sadic
English
Alternative forms
- Sadic
Etymology
From the Marquis de Sade + -ic, probably after French sadique.
Adjective
sadic (comparative more sadic, superlative most sadic)
- Sadistic.
- 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 349:
- 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, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 349:
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