sociopath
Example Sentences
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The actor could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
“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
A simpler way of putting it is that Pelicot has an antisocial personality disorder - a term preferred by psychiatrists these days to words such as psychopath or sociopath.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024
Since those calls, I have come to realize that those women simply did not understand that they had been dating a sociopath.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024
Incidentally, Malcolm also thought that Matthew was a sociopath.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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