sociopath
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Why not plant a high-functioning sociopath as a teacher in a building full of obnoxious, attitudinal, hormonal basket cases?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Just stand there and stare like a sociopath.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025
"All but one of the characters is a sociopath, so the movie works on almost no levels. I love to put it on and yell at it."
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025
“Even in the department they work in, you have to keep an eye over your shoulder. A sociopath does pretty well in this environment, but you don’t want too many sociopaths in the same department.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025
And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an out-cast.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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