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psychopath

[sahy-kuh-path] / ˈsaɪ kəˌpæθ /


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He also denied telling her in 2024 that he had been diagnosed as a psychopath.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Dressed in a shabby old coat and chic beret—“a look halfway between woman of mystery and lobster fisher”—Nora aims to thwart a dangerous psychopath while protecting the policeman with whom she’s increasingly smitten.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Not everyone with psychopathic traits commits crimes, and not every person who commits a crime is a psychopath, but research has consistently linked psychopathy with a higher risk of violent behavior.

From Science Daily May 10, 2026

He said it so seriously that she blinked, wondering if maybe she had accidentally struck up a conversation with a psychopath who had a thing for baking.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

“Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equal their persona.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Historically, we have pathologized people who lack such impulses; they are known as psychopaths, and their qualities have been deemed incompatible with a functioning society.

From Slate Jan. 9, 2026

The psychopaths I’ve encountered in my career have been neither exceptionally bright nor socially able, nor at all charming.

From BBC Nov. 30, 2024

Though he has played psychopaths and Marvel villains, there's every good reason to understand why Bridges' most iconic role is as The Dude in "The Big Lebowski."

From Salon Sep. 18, 2024

When Ms. Rosario was working, which was almost all the time, Mosley stopped by to make sure Michael hadn’t been kidnapped by psychopaths or brainwashed by daytime television.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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