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Recent Examples of psychopathic
So the things that people who are psychopathic have too little of, people who are very altruistic have more of.
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Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
The catch is that he’s being stalked by McCone (Lee Pace), a hunter with an impeccable catch-and-kill record, and his psychopathic goons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
Wilson played Alice Morgan, a psychopathic murdering research doctor who went toe-to-toe with Luther in the first season only to evolve into a co-dependent relationship.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
With Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as the psychopathic killer, Welcome to Derry is the perfect spooky prequel to the Stephen King adaptation.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
The catch is that he’s being stalked by McCone (Lee Pace), a hunter with an impeccable catch-and-kill record, and his psychopathic goons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
Wilson played Alice Morgan, a psychopathic murdering research doctor who went toe-to-toe with Luther in the first season only to evolve into a co-dependent relationship.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
With Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as the psychopathic killer, Welcome to Derry is the perfect spooky prequel to the Stephen King adaptation.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for psychopathic
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As Tony slips into sociopathic self-preservation in the series' waning days, his love for his children provides his last link to humanity.—
Dan Snierson,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Dec. 2025
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Hedda Nia DaCosta reimagines Henrik Ibsen’s famous anti-heroine as a sociopathic high-society hostess channeling all her frustration into manipulating the many people obsessed with her like an impulsive puppeteer.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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The actor first came to prominence with an acclaimed turn as a schizophrenic man in the 1993 indie film Clean, Shaven.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
13 Dec. 2025
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While the Nuggets themselves are coming off a schizophrenic and inconsistent week, to put it kindly, after home losses to Sacramento and San Antonio, the Blue Arrow has quietly been tying a bow around his most productive November ever.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
29 Nov. 2025
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Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
6 Dec. 2025
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Basil, of course, is far from perfect, a rude, neurotic, accident-prone manager who insults guests, hides his gambling winnings from his wife and organizes an elaborate impersonation of her when his surprise anniversary party backfires.—
Rhett Bartlett,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
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Namir Smallwood stars opposite Coon as Peter, a paranoid former soldier and mysterious drifter who meets her character Agnes, a lonely waitress.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Trump had won by fifty-three points there in 2016, and Greene’s paranoid pugnacity seemed like a good fit, if voters could stomach an outsider.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Anyone who thinks Bloomberg was a good mayor is completely delusional.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The standout cast also includes Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, and Rob Corddry, with many of their characters also striving—and carrying delusional views of their own worth.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
7 Jan. 2026
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But much of it is simply my personality, which borders on the obsessive-compulsive.—
Tom Vanderbilt,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Dec. 2025
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In a federal court filing Tuesday morning, Cole's attorneys said he has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
30 Dec. 2025
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Data on sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea or sleep-disordered breathing, were not available.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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The team explained that the disordered layered structure remained dimensionally stable as lithium ions moved, thereby preventing the sharp lattice contraction that normally occurs at high states of charge.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Psychopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychopathic. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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