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
  • According to court and police record, police were conducting a welfare check on Brown, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Hawley worked from a similar playbook with Legion, whose apparently schizophrenic superhero filtered a fast-evolving cultural conversation around mental illness through a psychedelic kaleidoscope, and especially Fargo.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.
    Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The actor who lets loose the most on The Studio is Kravitz, who sheds her cool-girl persona for something much more neurotic and career-minded.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Occasionally held back by a very mid-'00s aesthetic and stylistic choices that come across second-rate David Lynch, No Smoking is nonetheless an effectively paranoid adaptation of King for another culture.
    James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The threat is enough to make Cherry paranoid.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Madharaasi is a psychological action thriller film about an operation against a gun-syndicate and the encounter with a delusional patient.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Jacintha, a horseback rider, was familiar with ketamine as a horse tranquilizer but had never heard of it as a last-stop mental health treatment for treatment-resistant patients like Lucy, who was diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers focused on five serious and common mental health symptoms: suicidal thoughts, hallucinations, delusions, mania and obsessive-compulsive behavior.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And kids can develop disordered eating despite a parent's best effort to instill healthy eating habits.
    Adrienne Farr, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While the rise of GLP-1s brings a myriad of valid concerns − such as its contribution to disordered eating and promotion of thinness as the ideal body type − Williams' outspokenness is a crucial, balanced example of healthy and transparent GLP-1 usage.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Given its plotting, Brooks’s movie could easily have made Iris into a harridan and Isaac into a sociopathic rogue.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, she’s blossomed into a talented, sociopathic agent, working for Caddis, a sinister spy organization led by David’s former partner, Juno (Piper Perabo).
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The combination of mock-medieval silhouettes with all those big hats and acres of fabric in contrast with the lush sets somewhat brings to mind the delirious period pastiche design ethos of the late Derek Jarman, himself a production designer early in his career.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Loktev makes her way into various apartments for commiserative gatherings and holiday celebrations — the midpoint of My Undesirable Friends is a delirious New Year’s party — where her hosts inevitably mention that their places are certainly bugged.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Schizoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizoid. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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