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psychopath

[sahy-kuh-path] / ˈsaɪ kəˌpæθ /


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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

“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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