sociopathicin a sentence
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Under the old medical term, a sociopath was not as sick as a psychopath.
sociopath = previously a medical diagnosis which is now replaced with antisocial personality disorder
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And he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast.
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sociopath = someone who doesn't care about others
- 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."† (source)
- And unless you're a particularly capable sociopath, dishonesty can only take you so far.† (source)
- He was a charming sociopath, the kind of creep who makes a good first impression on those poor, sad people who are dazzled by top-drawer accents and custom-made dress shirts.† (source)
- The cooperation part was an unofficial brains-for-brawn trade agreement we'd worked out in which I helped him not fail English and he helped me not get killed by the roided-out sociopaths who prowled the halls of our school.† (source)
- The guy really was a sociopath.† (source)
- Her mother and father wouldn't visit her because she was a sociopath, or so said Lisa.† (source)
- He's as twisted as the others, but he's the smartest and the most stable—in a sociopathic homicidal way.† (source)
- You think you learned the truth from a liar, a traitor, and a sociopath?† (source)
- A sociopath must cut her teeth somewhere, like the austere marble halls of Wickshire Academy.† (source)
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- 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.† (source)
- Blaze is completely under the spell of a manipulative sociopath, and lied to the cops this morning, so I'm going to jail.† (source)
- He summarized me as a "situational sociopath willing to give answers that attempted to redefine who he was, rather than to honestly describe himself.† (source)
- "And he talks about the 5 percent, which is Special Operations guys, and how, clinically, we're all borderline sociopaths.† (source)
- Psychotic, sociopathic.† (source)
- She knew about Stockholm syndrome, an acute sociopathic response to intense trauma, usually expressed by victims identifying with, even siding with, their oppressors.† (source)
- He's a man, above average intelligence, with sociopathic and voyeuristic tendencies.† (source)
- She lacks empathy and in many respects can be described as a sociopath.† (source)
- Whatever else he was—sociopathic, psychotic, homicidal—he was also a child.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- She sneered: No sociopath could emerge from there.† (source)
- "Lilly said, in her meanest voice, "She's a vegetarian, you sociopath."† (source)
- Because the woman I cheated on—my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne—is a sociopath and a murderer.† (source)
- Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim."† (source)
- Lisa was not so happy, because she had been the only sociopath among us.† (source)
- The real Lisa was proving that Lisa Cody wasn't a sociopath.† (source)
- My wife was an insatiable sociopath before.† (source)
- I consider her to be withdrawn, but not a paranoid sociopath.† (source)
- She knew that sociopaths couldn't feel emotion, at least that was her understanding.† (source)
- Some sociopath who killed for the thrill of it.† (source)
- Believe me, I've never met such a clearly defined sociopath."† (source)
- They're sociopaths, and there's no way you could have known.† (source)
- Sociopath!† (source)
- He was successful over half the time, which wasn't bad, considering the cases were usually damning, the accused extremely unlikable—cheaters, narcissists, sociopaths.† (source)
- You are a sociopath.† (source)
- She was a sociopath too.† (source)
- He's probably a sociopath; he's been stalking Julie since the beginning of their acquaintance and seems to confuse her with his wife.† (source)
- He may be a sociopath, but—† (source)
- Even if he was a sociopath, even if the guy left town, feelings aren't turned on and off like a switch.† (source)
- All the same, the investigation had been based largely on his analysis of her—as a sociopath on the border of psychosis.† (source)
- In the book, she'd learned that the central character, Hannibal Lecter, wasn't psychopathic, he was sociopathic; it was the first time she'd realized there was a difference between the two.† (source)
- Then, during a period when the city's ruling elite was in one of its periodic moods to view certain forms of sociopathic behavior as a legitimate protest, vagrancy increased, gang members began to loiter in groups, and open drug dealing commenced.† (source)
- A vicious, cruel, remorseless, murdering sociopath was doing his best to convince me he liked me, and I wondered why.† (source)
- In an interview he had explained with a concerned expression that in Sweden there were a number of sociopaths with such grave mental disturbances that they presented a danger to themselves as well as to others, and modern medicine could offer no alternative to keeping these individuals safely locked up.† (source)
- What they understood was that I was dressed in a suit, standing beside and speaking on behalf of a sociopath who'd killed two of their own.† (source)
- The sociopath not only decided he wants to sleep with me, but he followed me and practically scared me to death.† (source)
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