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psychopath

[sahy-kuh-path] / ˈsaɪ kəˌpæθ /


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For a book that claims to praise Diana, Mr. Spencer makes her sound like a borderline psychopath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I'm "90% that nice, warm guy who's on the news, but I'm also 10% psychopath," Rajan had said earlier.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But Bardem’s Max is a different breed of psychopath from those previously embodied by Roberts DeNiro and Mitchum.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Jack, a kid I’d hated, a kid that I considered a psychopath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Even if he did think she was a perverted psychopath who wrote herself badly punctuated threats.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

He was responding to an incident disclosed in recent days that shows why we probably shouldn’t make artificial psychopaths without at least thinking it through a bit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Earlier research had suggested that the striatum may be unusually active in psychopaths, but it was less clear whether the size of this brain region was also involved.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 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

That seems to tie into your reference to psychopaths, as well as extreme narcissists.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025

Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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