psychopath
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.
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Origin of psychopath
1- Compare sociopath.
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How to use psychopath in a sentence
Its newer persona suggests a softer side, a demon looking creature but finally not a psychopath, merely a misunderstood everyman with feathers.
It’s the kind of TV Patrick Bateman from American Psycho would have if he were just a normal rich guy and not a murderous psychopath.
In April 2007, after a solid 34-year run in prison — back when noted psychopaths were a slight exception to the three-decade limit — Filho was released for the first time.
With very little information, people can guess at rates above chance whether someone is a psychopath.
Why We Judge People Based on Their Relatives - Facts So Romantic | Diana Fleischman | November 11, 2020 | NautilusWe both had maybe a little bit of a twisted interest in psychopaths, dictators — psychopaths of all stripes.
“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man | Alissa Wilkinson | September 4, 2020 | Vox
In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.
School Shooters Love This Pickup Artist Website | Brandy Zadrozny | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.
Hong Kong’s High-Flying British Psycho Killer Suspect | Nico Hines, Tom Sykes | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Makers | Cory DoctorowFor an accusation of physical coercion and threat of rape would be far less convincing from a psychopath.
The Trial of Callista Blake | Edgar Pangborn
British Dictionary definitions for 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 called: sociopath
Derived forms of psychopath
- psychopathic, adjective
- psychopathically, adverb
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Cultural definitions for psychopath
[ (seye-kuh-path) ]
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. (Compare sociopath.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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