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psychopath

[sahy-kuh-path] / ˈsaɪ kəˌpæθ /


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She added: "You don't need to be a psychopath to thrive - for a while at least - in a psychopathic culture."

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

The Apple TV series remake about a psychopath seeking revenge on a lawyer, played this time by Amy Adams, nods to its predecessors while including new twists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The little psychopath had survived his trials with Lupa just fine, but as soon as he arrived at Camp Jupiter he had proved to be untrainable.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

There is no treatment available for psychopathy, as "psychopaths often believe that there's nothing wrong with them".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as “Cleckley” psychopaths.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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