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psychopath

[ sahy-kuh-path ]

noun

  1. 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

/ ˈsaɪkəʊˌpæθ /

noun

  1. 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 Also calledsociopath
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


psychopath

  1. A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. ( Compare sociopath .)


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Derived Forms

  • ˌpsychoˈpathic, adjective
  • ˌpsychoˈpathically, adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of psychopath1

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -path
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Example Sentences

Its newer persona suggests a softer side, a demon looking creature but finally not a psychopath, merely a misunderstood everyman with feathers.

It’s the kind of TV Patrick Bateman from American Psycho would have if he were just a normal rich guy and not a murderous psychopath.

In April 2007, after a solid 34-year run in prison — back when noted psychopaths were a slight exception to the three-decade limit — Filho was released for the first time.

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With very little information, people can guess at rates above chance whether someone is a psychopath.

We both had maybe a little bit of a twisted interest in psychopaths, dictators — psychopaths of all stripes.

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In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath.

For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.

In his late 20s, Cumming confronted his father about his abuse; in response, his father insisted, “I am not a psychopath.”

Dude looks just like Richie Cunningham—Sunday, Monday—Psychopath!

Game of Thrones had an overly sensual libertine while House of Cards had a manipulative psychopath.

He barely rated above average on the corporate psychopath meter.

For an accusation of physical coercion and threat of rape would be far less convincing from a psychopath.

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