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psychopath

[ sahy-kuh-path ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.

psychopath

/ ˈsaɪkəʊˌpæθ /

a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts Also calledsociopath

psychopath

A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. ( Compare sociopath .)

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -path

In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.

For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.

In his late 20s, Cumming confronted his father about his abuse; in response, his father insisted, “I am not a psychopath.”

Dude looks just like Richie Cunningham—Sunday, Monday—Psychopath!

Game of Thrones had an overly sensual libertine while House of Cards had a manipulative psychopath.

He barely rated above average on the corporate psychopath meter.

For an accusation of physical coercion and threat of rape would be far less convincing from a psychopath.

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