psychopath
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Creasy said he had "made a series of very serious allegations", became abusive and "referred to the fact he had been diagnosed as a psychopath".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
Too little or no empathy makes you a psychopath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He said it so seriously that she blinked, wondering if maybe she had accidentally struck up a conversation with a psychopath who had a thing for baking.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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“Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equal their persona.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
The psychopaths I’ve encountered in my career have been neither exceptionally bright nor socially able, nor at all charming.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
And psychopaths are far more concerned with their own power than preserving truth, democracy or even lives.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023
Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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Body Language: Psych ("Mind")
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