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Recent Examples of sociopathic
Its state security service is still known as the KGB, whose headquarters stands across from Dzerzhinsky Square, named after the sociopathic founder of the Soviet secret police.
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Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
The consequences of a difficult decision from his past come back to haunt him, and Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), a sociopathic young agent, is assigned to kill him.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
These sociopathic billionaires have gathered for a friendly weekend poker retreat.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 July 2025
That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
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Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
The consequences of a difficult decision from his past come back to haunt him, and Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), a sociopathic young agent, is assigned to kill him.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
These sociopathic billionaires have gathered for a friendly weekend poker retreat.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 July 2025
That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociopathic
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Clayton, a bipolar, suicidal man, voluntarily checks into a mental hospital and falls in love with a schizophrenic patient, Anna (Jade Jordan).—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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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
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The threat is enough to make Cherry paranoid.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Eventually, the assorted good and bad actors converge on the premises of Mandy’s father, who is, of all things, a psychopathic religious cult leader.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty (Monroe) who hides her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Scientists are sequencing the genomes in brain regions that postmortem studies show are affected by CTE to understand which cells and genes are aberrant.—
Alice Park,
Time,
31 July 2025
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The answer is that France at this time was attempting to heal its wartime wounds, papering over the cracks in the social fabric that had opened up during the German Occupation and positioning itself as a nation of resisters, in which collaborators had been few and aberrant.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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