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Recent Examples of sociopathic
Harper is a bit of a dead-eyed, ruthless, sociopathic great white shark.
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Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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
More recently, he's played an abusive husband on Big Little Lies, a sociopathic tech mogul on Succession, and a vengeance-seeking viking caked in dirt and blood in The Northman.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026
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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Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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
More recently, he's played an abusive husband on Big Little Lies, a sociopathic tech mogul on Succession, and a vengeance-seeking viking caked in dirt and blood in The Northman.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Jan. 2026
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociopathic
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Senior Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore acknowledged that Fahim was schizophrenic, but argued that the killings were driven by Fahim’s anger at his workplace dispute with Cuomo, not his mental illness.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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In many-minded terms, an octopus’s natural life spans so many lives that the one-minded might call it unnatural or even schizophrenic.—
Mandy-Suzanne Wong,
Longreads,
5 Feb. 2026
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This uber-neurotic comedian, actor, writer and now recording artist has spent the better part of two decades making audiences laugh, cringe, and cry, often within the same breath.—
Brittany Delay,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The original Malcolm in the Middle, in the early 2000s, starred Frankie Muniz as the analytical, neurotic protagonist narrating his family’s daily misadventures.—
Allison McClain Merrill,
Parents,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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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Beginning in 2010, emergency rooms began seeing agitated patients who were violent, paranoid and psychotic after ingesting synthetic cathinones sold as bath salts.—
Jonathan Corum,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Hitchcock offers a solid condemnation of paranoid English nationalism on the brink of war, all under the guise of a compelling whodunit in one of the director's trademark locations, keeping all suspects in close quarters (and the true killer even closer).—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Apr. 2026
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In 2024, Julie Aitken Schermer, a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, published a paper that showed drivers who modified their exhaust systems to be louder were more likely to have psychopathic and sadist tendencies.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Apr. 2026
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The novel gives us a far more detailed and, for that reason, more frightening insight into Norman’s psychopathic condition than is possible in movies and is, in its own medium, just as memorable.—
Therie Hendrey-Seabrook,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Viewers flooded the post with reactions ranging from heart-melting to hilariously delusional, with declarations of wanting to cuddle the bear and questions about the sheer size of his bathtub filling the comment section.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Apr. 2026
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Among the many obsessive bloggers and observers who cover the industry, the idea was mostly treated as so improbable, even delusional, as to be not even worth taking seriously.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Washington’s version of McCall is disciplined but damaged, and possibly afflicted with something like obsessive-compulsive disorder.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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This goes against how therapists try combat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other compulsive behavior, which is predicated on fostering self-trust and accepting uncertainty, the reporting notes.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
8 Apr. 2026
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The aberrant action of our mosaic immune system attacking healthy cells is the basis of autoimmune disease.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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At the time, many observers treated his approach as aberrant.—
Jack Schlossberg,
Fortune,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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