psychopath
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A psychopath is someone with an antisocial personality disorder, external, rather than a clinical diagnosis itself.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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
But Bardem’s Max is a different breed of psychopath from those previously embodied by Roberts DeNiro and Mitchum.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
A hyperactive psychopath, Skarsgård’s Little John is one of the movie’s rare treats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
She glanced over her shoulder at Cain, who was joking with Grave as if he weren’t a demon-summoning psychopath.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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Which brings me back to psychopaths, who simply can’t see that their actions cause harm or just don’t care.
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
Among the various courses on Christopher's website is one which teaches people how to "overcome and destroy the devastating effects of narcissists and psychopaths" at a cost of £280.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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Body Language: Psych ("Mind")
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