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previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with "antisocial personality disorder" — sometimes used informally as an insult describing one as antisocial- What happened, you see, was I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I'm a psychopath.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
psychopath = previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with "antisocial personality disorder" — sometimes used informally as an insult describing one as antisocial
- We've simply been witness to the fading of his magnificent psychopathic suntan.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- As a psychopath, he's much too fond of a Mr. Randle Patrick McMurphy to subject him to any needless danger.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Don't you recognize the arch type of psychopath?Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- -and do you think, for all your acclaimed psychopathic powers, that you could effectively use your weapon against our champion?Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- My psychopathic tendencies?Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Why, see here, my friend Mr. McMurphy, my psychopathic sidekick, our Miss Ratched is a veritable angel of mercy and why just everyone knows it.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Psychopath with definite sadistic tendencies, probably motivated by an unreasoning egomania.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- He told me that psychopath means I fight and fuh-pardon me, ladies-means I am he put it overzealous in my sexual relations.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- When I get out of here the first woman that takes on ol' Red McMurphy the ten-thousand-watt psychopath, she's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Where it says, 'Mr. McMurphy has evidenced repeated'-I just want to make sure I'm understood completely, Doc-'repeated outbreaks of passion that suggest the possible diagnosis of psychopath.'Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- I don't agree that he should be sent up to Disturbed, which would simply be an easy way of passing our problem on to another ward, and I don't agree that he is some kind of extraordinary being-some kind of 'super' psychopath.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- She glanced over her shoulder at Cain, who was joking with Grave as if he weren't a demon-summoning psychopath.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- Whatever might surface from whatever source would be categorized and substantiated as the incoherent ramblings of a crippled, psychopathic alcoholic.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- She can't just trade you away to a psychopath!Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- "I get a case with a client who's innocent, and the victim's son turns out to be a psychopath.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- If I was a psychopath, I would have killed you in your sleep by now.Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
- The completely insane psychopath who was trying to eliminate most of the world's population!James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
- Even if he did think she was a perverted psychopath who wrote herself badly punctuated threats.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- This man, thought Tinker, is a psychopath.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
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