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psychopath
[sahy-kuh-path]
noun
a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
psychopath
/ ˈɪəʊˌæθ /
noun
Also called: sociopath.a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts
psychopath
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. (Compare sociopath.)
Other Word Forms
- ˌ⳦ˈ貹ٳ adjective
- ˌ⳦ˈ貹ٳally adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of psychopath1
Example Sentences
In a court filing last month, the former sheriff disputed an assessment by a county-hired expert psychiatrist that described him as having “many attributes of a ‘white-collar psychopath.’
The operator was "notorious in the squadron, he genuinely seemed like a psychopath," the former colleague added.
My Hollywood ending was far from glamorous: me, catatonic on Nick’s couch, realizing I had given it all up for an honest-to-God psychopath.
In hundreds of posts, Wall described him as manipulative, a psychopath and a sociopathic abuser.
He said Saadi compensated by "obsessing" over horror films and was fascinated by the mind of a psychopath and had a "growing sense of rage against society for the rejection".
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