schizoid

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Recent Examples of schizoid 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 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 Why not make a of couple bucks off your other 21st-century schizoid man? Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024 There's no way to prevent schizoid or other personality disorders. Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023 For example, a mathematician with a schizoid personality might be perfectly comfortable calculating in solitude. Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023 Acting isn't schizoid like that. Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizoid
Adjective
  • The ongoing controversy surrounding the police shooting of a mentalliy ill Queens schizophrenic man who charged at cops with a knife ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with the release of 911 audio the NYPD says makes clear police were going to be responding to the episode.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The most compelling aspect of Newsom’s biography is his schizophrenic upbringing, vis-à-vis wealth.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Marty is not cultured, colorful and neurotic with a penchant for Yiddish outbursts.
    David Colman, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There’s Bill Walsh, the brilliant, neurotic coach who some feel burned out too soon.
    Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The primary tension here is between Kyle and Camille, two women locked in a season-long battle of paranoid insecurity and misread intentions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Making Verification Normal, Not Niche ClarityCheck aims to reframe verification from a rare or paranoid action into a casual, everyday safety habit, no more unusual than Googling a product before buying it.
    Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Margot Robbie’s Catherine is whimsical, impulsive and occasionally delusional, a woman intoxicated by her own volatility.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Fourth, despite the near-zero chance that the project would ever be completed, this hasn’t stopped delusional souls from looking beyond the primary Los Angeles to San Francisco project.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Importantly, some psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder are characterized by impulsivity, or a lack of hesitation, while excessive hesitation is a crippling consequence of several anxiety disorders.
    Eric Yttri, The Conversation, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Cole’s attorneys pointed to his lack of criminal record and diagnoses for autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder as reasons to let him out of jail as the case progresses.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • My practice now includes a detailed history of eating disorders and monitoring for disordered eating throughout treatment.
    Jody Dushay, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For perspective, the help-seeking rate for those with disordered eating or eating disorders in the general population is between 32% and 40%.
    Emily Hemendinger, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • If readers are at all uncertain of his sociopathic tendencies, Heathcliff then hangs his wife’s dog.
    Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Alternating between the date and the shoot-out gives the love story extra impact, as the unadulterated joy between Angela and Mike is even more pronounced when placed against the sociopathic violence of Stockwell’s existence.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Becky is dehydrated and delirious, but manages to nourish herself after strangling and eating a vulture that attacked her on the platform.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Some 20,000 delirious, singing spectators with flags of every sort in various states of inebriation had gotten their money’s worth, and then some.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026

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“Schizoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizoid. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.

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