psychopath

A psychopath is someone with an antisocial personality disorder, external, rather than a clinical diagnosis itself.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

Mitchell sees Aemond as a product of his circumstances, rather than just a murdering psychopath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

But I can’t see him as a psychopath.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

“Edgar Allan Poe wrote these books about psychopaths and killers. Authors do not equal their persona.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Earlier research had suggested that the striatum may be unusually active in psychopaths, but it was less clear whether the size of this brain region was also involved.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 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

That seems to tie into your reference to psychopaths, as well as extreme narcissists.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025

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