Sample sentences for MASOCHIST

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Definition

someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment

If you're not a masochist, find a job you enjoy most of the time.

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Sally Kempton
Man was forced to accept masochism as his ideal—under the threat that sadism was his only alternative.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
The trial was a necessary, but masochistic, ritual.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I've never been much of a masochist, so I'm not looking forward to the pain.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
We're not, you know, masochistic.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Clary wondered if she wasn't some kind of masochist, to throw herself into the path of it herself.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
It seemed like bravery to me before, but now it seems more like masochism.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
A masochistic sort of thing.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
BERENGER: I'm no masochist, I assure you.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
Was I a masochist, who wanted to relieve the agony I'd inflicted?
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
There's bravery and then there's masochism, and the line got a little hazy with him."
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
What a sick, masochistic lion.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
She may have been, she admitted, truly masochistic.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Our kindness has been tainted with masochism since the world began, and it is not to our best interest to forget it.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
I had to ask in a masochistic way, "Was Lindsay there?"
Louise Rennison -- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
I must be some kind of masochist.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
They all knew he had an assignment, and only a fool or a masochist would want to go outside today.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.
Ally Condie -- Matched
Which would have been masochistic ecstasy for me, probably.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

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