sociopathic

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Recent Examples of sociopathic After all, Milla is a true believer who goes tragically wrong, not a sociopathic manipulator. Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025 Everyone else who isn’t a sociopathic weirdo will be tuned in to the Big Game. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025 DiCaprio starred in the film as the sociopathic slave owner Calvin Candie. Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025 He was physically and mentally brutalized by a sociopathic father. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sociopathic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociopathic
Adjective
  • Schulz portrayed his Peanuts gang as small adults; Feiffer’s adults are all neurotic overgrown children.
    Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Regardless of his neurotic tendencies, Hovland won last month and finished seventh at the 2023 Masters. 18.
    Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • The latest lawsuit portrays Jones as growing increasingly paranoid and rattled by negative press about her in outlets like Puck and Business Insider as well as on an anonymous website that detailed her alleged treatment of employees and clients.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The administration promptly disobeyed a federal court’s order to halt deportation flights under a paranoid anti-foreigner law enacted in 1798.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • About two-thirds of people with ADHD have been diagnosed with a mental health condition such as depression, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).8 Symptoms and Traits While every neurodivergent individual experiences unique emotional and behavioral symptoms.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, exposure therapy tends to be the go-to for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The overwhelmed administration levied minimal consequences, leading to the student having the impression that their aberrant behavior would result in no significant punitive action.
    Martin Potters, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
  • One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.
    Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History, TIME, 10 June 2024
Adjective
  • Where the ambulances once stood, remnants of vehicles protruded from disturbed ground.
    Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Next to disturbed earth are three Israeli military bulldozers and an excavator.
    Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • By that point the artist was far from Paris, in retreat from the Revolution, and the new paintings have a fleet, delirious, shut-in feel as if produced in a fever.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Krueger’s intensely internal yet physical performance has been crucial in portraying the full spectrum of Ben’s agony throughout his time on the show, from the delirious exhaustion of starvation to the panicked frustration of not being believed.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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