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Recent Examples of sociopathic
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).
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
The series lacks the nerve to let David come across as anything other than a noble hero, despite his own history as a deadly mercenary, or to more fully explore Rebecca’s possibly sociopathic tendencies.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
The series lacks the nerve to let David come across as anything other than a noble hero, despite his own history as a deadly mercenary, or to more fully explore Rebecca’s possibly sociopathic tendencies.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociopathic
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That same summer, Bill Keller and I wrote a story about a schizophrenic man named Andrew Goldstein who, in 1999, had pushed Kendra Webdale in front of an oncoming subway.—
John J. Lennon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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Following his turn as the nerdy and neurotic Michael, David Krumholtz continued his role as head elf Bernard in 2002's The Santa Clause 2, and reprised the part on an episode of the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses in 2022.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Karen Black chewed the scenery — literally and figuratively — as a neurotic, insecure wife who turns to consuming a diner’s entire desert tray to cope when her husband leaves her.—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 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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Bob and Zoyd are both paranoid in the wake of their rebellious pasts.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men—the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976—isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
16 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
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So many women who have gotten famous on Bravo did so by being mean, delusional, or mean and delusional, give or take a drinking problem.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
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Like, our delusional friend Hope is so positive.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
26 Sep. 2025
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In fact, it could be considered obsessive-compulsive.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
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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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The aberrant gene makes a form of the huntingtin protein that clumps into toxic aggregates, which prevent nerves from functioning normally.—
Alice Park,
Time,
26 Sep. 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 3 Oct. 2025.
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