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psychopath
[ sahy-kuh-path ]
noun
- 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
/ ˈɪəʊˌæθ /
noun
- 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
psychopath
- A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. ( Compare sociopath .)
Derived Forms
- ˌ⳦ˈ貹ٳ, adjective
- ˌ⳦ˈ貹ٳally, adverb
51Թ History and Origins
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In hundreds of posts, Wall described him as manipulative, a psychopath and a sociopathic abuser.
He said Saadi compensated by "obsessing" over horror films and was fascinated by the mind of a psychopath and had a "growing sense of rage against society for the rejection".
Its most cancerous component may be acting Ice Director Tom Homan, a gentleman that political analyst Norm Ornstein calls a “psychopath and Nazi.”
"Putin is a psychopath who has no borders," he said.
"There's a subset of people, like 1% of the population, who are psychopaths, who are not worried about the vulnerable, who are worried first and foremost about cementing power and gaining status."
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