sociopath

He takes no sensual pleasure in his destruction of Othello and Cassio, just the studied satisfaction of a sociopath watching with appreciation, as if from a distance, the malignant results of his handiwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Just stand there and stare like a sociopath.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025

After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

A simpler way of putting it is that Pelicot has an antisocial personality disorder - a term preferred by psychiatrists these days to words such as psychopath or sociopath.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an out-cast.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Psychologists, too, make this mistake, believing that sociopaths are not strategic but, rather, mentally ill, because they were traumatized in childhood.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

Despite pop culture depictions of sociopaths as inherently violent, there is strong evidence people with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than those causing it.

From Salon ● May 20, 2024

“Lying kept me safe. I was sliding under the radar,” Gagne, 48, said in the interview, estimating that as many as 15 million Americans may be sociopaths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson