How to Use pathological in a Sentence

pathological

adjective

• She has a pathological fear of heights.
• He is a pathological liar.
• That’s not pathological; that’s just a way for the world to be.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• All of which brings us to the last week of this pathological year and fresh hope for the new one.
  — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 29 Dec. 2025
• All mass killers do not emerge from the same pathological matrix.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Over time, as the stakes rise, this aversion to conflict starts to feel pathological.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
• Any new business founder will have a near-pathological fear of failure.
  — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Counterops online campaign to push back and call her out as a pathological liar.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• For the 40 years after the war, there was this almost pathological fear to speak of the war.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 21 Dec. 2021
• That said, don’t overindulge, drink too much, or dominate a party game with your pathological need to win.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
• This is not because black people are more broken or more pathological than any other group.
  — Brittney Cooper, Cosmopolitan, 14 July 2017
• The scans showed pathological bone growths in the cranium and jawbone.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
• My identity was formed and reformed around the needs of those around me and the pathological need to put myself last.
  — Lea Grover, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2020
• What a pathological twist to require such sacrifice and then make things even worse for people who loved you so much.
  — Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
• Most people have a pathological instinct to avoid adopting the habits of their parents.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• Lying as a means of coping with poverty had given way to something more pathological.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 20 July 2022
• Even the worm, a low thing in every way, knew this was weird, probably pathological behaviour from the bird.
  — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
• So you’re getting doubled up targeting of these organs in a very pathological way.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2021
• Instead of being praised as a straight-shooter, I was called a gold-digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
  — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
• The line between sane and insane, normal and pathological, has always been where society agrees to draw it.
  — Rebecca A. Seligman, STAT, 8 May 2018
• The fans, with a pathological obsession for winning, and the media demand wins.
  — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• The source of this misguided pathological activity is that there are too many voting rights groups.
  — Fortune, 18 Jan. 2022
• The study acknowledges that nicotine is a drug of abuse and could have severe pathological consequences.
  — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 3 May 2020
• The case is in the hands of the OIJ who are waiting on the results of pathological exams.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
• The only thing that holds him back in early seasons is his pathological need for affection and public approval.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
• Abnormal clumps of amyloid in the brain are a hallmark pathological sign of Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• This is due in part to some of the basic affinities of cinema as a medium, with its soft spot for fast-talking charmers and pathological con men.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• To be innocent of an offense and yet to confess your guilt—not for pathological reasons but purely to get ahead in the world—takes a certain panache.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• But this could all have to do with the fact that, clearly, Eric has a pathological relationship with his mother.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
• Crichlow contrasts Adams’s pathological swagger with an air of paternal angst.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025