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
“For over three years, Anna’s family and friends have waited for justice. Today the jury has spoken, returned its guilty verdict for first-degree murder against this sociopath and justice has arrived,” Los Angeles County Dist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
It is, unfortunately, the heyday of the harmful sociopath and the abusive clinical narcissist.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
She laughs and jokes that "I'd be like, 'Oh no I found a sociopath'".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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
One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
But sociopaths do exist—and in American society they become billionaires.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
Despite pop culture depictions of sociopaths as inherently violent, there is strong evidence people with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than those causing it.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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