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an insult describing one as antisocial; previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with antisocial personality disorder — a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others- And he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
sociopath = someone who doesn't care about others
- You think you learned the truth from a liar, a traitor, and a sociopath?Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- The guy really was a sociopath.Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
- Even if he was a sociopath, even if the guy left town, feelings aren't turned on and off like a switch.Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
- Whatever else he was—sociopathic, psychotic, homicidal—he was also a child.Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- He summarized me as a "situational sociopath willing to give answers that attempted to redefine who he was, rather than to honestly describe himself.Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
- He's probably a sociopath; he's been stalking Julie since the beginning of their acquaintance and seems to confuse her with his wife.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- A sociopath must cut her teeth somewhere, like the austere marble halls of Wickshire Academy.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- He's as twisted as the others, but he's the smartest and the most stable—in a sociopathic homicidal way.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- He's a man, above average intelligence, with sociopathic and voyeuristic tendencies.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- She lacks empathy and in many respects can be described as a sociopath.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- I consider her to be withdrawn, but not a paranoid sociopath.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Blaze is completely under the spell of a manipulative sociopath, and lied to the cops this morning, so I'm going to jail.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- Some sociopath who killed for the thrill of it.Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
- Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: "sociopath."Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- Her mother and father wouldn't visit her because she was a sociopath, or so said Lisa.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- Psychotic, sociopathic.James Patterson -- 1st to Die
- She knew about Stockholm syndrome, an acute sociopathic response to intense trauma, usually expressed by victims identifying with, even siding with, their oppressors.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- The forensic psychiatrist I'd hired to examine him said Johnny Wayne was a narcissist, a pathological liar, and a sociopath, and those were his good qualities.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- The previous notion that disposition is everything — that the cause of violent behavior is always "sociopathic personality" or "deficient superego" or the inability to delay gratification or some evil in the genes — is, in the end, the most passive and reactive of ideas about crime.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
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