Sadism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 114 anagrams from letters in sadism (adimss).
1885-90; French sadisme; see Sade, -ism
But we must confront our sadism to protect ourselves from it.
It is a dysgenic factor but much less important than sadism.
And it was here that I detected a trace of sadism in my lovely wife.
This is so to speak an inversion of sadism as regards cause and effect.
Just as Bush outsourced his own sadism to Guantanamo, most of us outsourced our sadism to him by passively accepting what he did.
But the existence of sadism is a part of the human condition that is both universal and universally hard to acknowledge.
Certain reminiscences of sadism are common both in man and woman.
Obama processes his sadism to the point where he gets somewhat more acceptable.
Julian Fellowes can save his show by offing the target of his sadism.
The journal in question attributes with good reason this fantasy to sadism.