sociopath

Example Sentences

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The actor could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025

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