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sociopath
[soh-see-uh-path, soh-shee-]
noun
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
sociopath
/ ˌsəʊsɪˈɒpəθɪ, ˈsəʊsɪəˌpæθ /
noun
psychiatry another name for psychopath
sociopath
Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others. (Compare psychopath.)
Other 51Թ Forms
- sociopathic adjective
- sociopathy noun
- ˌdzˈ貹ٳ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sociopath1
Example Sentences
Bundy is the book’s charismatic centerpiece, a handsome, well-dressed sociopath in shiny patent-leather shoes, flitting from college to college, job to job, corpse to corpse.
Install a vicious, undisciplined sociopath as would-be dictator of the United States, unleashing a worldwide reaction of anti-American loathing.
After five seasons, Penn Badgley says goodbye to the narcissistic sociopath character he portrayed in “You.”
All these people follow Trump, a man who is incapable of empathy, so much so that many high-profile psychologists have argued that he should be considered a sociopath, despite not consenting to a formal diagnosis.
Legislators zeroed in on Maher’s statements before she became head of NPR, in which she called Trump “a deranged racist sociopath” and described the terms “boy” and “girl” as “erasing language for nonbinary people.”
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