sado- Psychol.,
(ˈseɪdəʊ)
comb. form of sadism or sadistic a. Cf. also sado-masochism.
| 1935 [see sado-masochism]. 1954 B. Karpman Sexual Offender ix. 131 Alcohol is the illegitimate satiation of appetite which she fights in obsessionalism based on sado-necrophilia. 1964 Observer 30 Aug. 28 Client prints paperbacks for all tastes from (I think) the nasty sado-snobbism of poor Fleming to Tolstoy. 1970 Guardian Weekly 11 Apr. 19 A kind of all-senses collage assembled from bits of girlie photos, tropical stills, and mock-ups of sado-erotic temple carvings. 1976 New Yorker 26 Apr. 121/1 Given the sado-erotic content of the film{ddd}one tends to make Grace a woman. 1980 R. Ludlum Bourne Identity xiii. 195 The sado-romantic myth turns into a brilliant, blood-soaked monster who brokers assassination. |