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Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The clown, a kind of psychopathic silent movie character who never utters a peep, bludgeons his victims in vicious murder sequences that operate as gory punchlines each time out.
—Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2020
They are popularly recognized as the motto of a fictional psychopathic supervillain.
—Brian Murphy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 May 2018
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Adjective
To understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler, scholars often cite people’s deep commitment to Nazi ideology; the hatred of Jews, homosexuals, Romani, or Communists; or sheer psychopathic sadism.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The clown, a kind of psychopathic silent movie character who never utters a peep, bludgeons his victims in vicious murder sequences that operate as gory punchlines each time out.
—Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
The character is a pure psychopathic who drives a classic hot rod and has a fanatical love of Coors beer.
—James Hibberd, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2020
They are popularly recognized as the motto of a fictional psychopathic supervillain.
—Brian Murphy, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 May 2018
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“Psychopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychopathic. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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psychopathic
1 of 2 adjective
psy·cho·path·ic
ˌsī-kə-ˈpath-ik 
: of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy
psychopathic
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