psychopath

He also denied telling her in 2024 that he had been diagnosed as a psychopath.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

Not everyone with psychopathic traits commits crimes, and not every person who commits a crime is a psychopath, but research has consistently linked psychopathy with a higher risk of violent behavior.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 2026

He’s a rescue mutt, and I like to joke he’s part Pyrenees, part psychopath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The fact that he smiled and waved doesn’t mean anything, he could be a psychopath for all I know.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

A lot of the stories I was reading were about narcissistic men and psychopaths, and how they operate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

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

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