sociopath

In one scene it lingers for what struck me as an inexplicably, even discomfitingly long time on the handsome face of a young sociopath pranking a pair of little kids with small stones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

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

It is, unfortunately, the heyday of the harmful sociopath and the abusive clinical narcissist.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025

A simpler way of putting it is that Pelicot has an antisocial personality disorder - a term preferred by psychiatrists these days to words such as psychopath or sociopath.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an out-cast.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

If the way people become incredibly wealthy is by just being con artists — as opposed to sociopaths, which is how they used to get incredibly wealthy — it’s even less attractive.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Psychologists, too, make this mistake, believing that sociopaths are not strategic but, rather, mentally ill, because they were traumatized in childhood.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024

“Not all sociopaths are dangerous criminals. They’re not going to be easy to spot. They’re not going to be stereotypical monsters. You could be sleeping next to one. You could have, in fact, birthed one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

I’ve heard about sociopaths, people who connect with no one but themselves and their own self-interests.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson