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 Less than 1% of individuals develop schizoid personality disorder. Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023 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 She was described in the ratings as the highest scorer on paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder of all the characters (see figure 2). Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizoid
Adjective
  • Possibly the most surprisingly tender, yet still very funny, subplot in the film involves Lucky, a neurotic dog obsessed with weird smells and tastes, learning to love himself after an encounter with Frankie, an intersex dog voiced by River Gallo.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 June 2025
  • Rick Hoffman also reprised his fan-favorite character, the neurotic financial law partner Louis Litt, in the spinoff.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Some artists report losing significant opportunities and having to switch careers because of the genre’s downturn; others are paranoid, unable to discern the real from the hoax.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 July 2025
  • After his season 4 stint in London, Goldberg (living alongside his wife and son) always has one eye over his shoulder, paranoid that the (literal) skeletons in his closet might soon spill out.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Armed with a voice that creates a number of characters and family members, Bamford’s comedy takes a self-deprecating, if occasionally surreal , look at her life, and her struggles with anxiety and bi-polar and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
  • SSRIs are approved by the FDA to treat a range of conditions such as anxiety, depression, bulimia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and are used off-label to treat several others.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • The cells have an ugly, disordered appearance under a microscope.
    Adam B. Kushner, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • In more severe cases, this ongoing pattern may erode a parent’s relationship with food, leading to emotional or disordered eating that feels increasingly difficult to name, let alone break.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • The exception might be those with sociopathic tendencies, research shows that to be a relatively small percentage of the population.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • How does a youthful belief in a better world curdle into such sociopathic severity?
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • The back and forth between these two figures — between, essentially, man and fate — has a delicious, delirious existential kick.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • The week’s selections were hard-core, but also delirious and dreamy.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is not aberrant behavior from this Court’s Republican majority.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 26 June 2025
  • With this book, Willy’s style began venturing into aberrant linguistic territory.
    Benjamin Hale June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Wide view of Fordow enrichment complex showing recent excavation patterns and a trail of disturbed soil, indicating active recovery efforts.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • The developing caterpillars can retract into their bags when they are disturbed or threatened, says Joseph.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 21 June 2025

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“Schizoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizoid. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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