How to Use pathological in a Sentence

pathological

adjective

• She has a pathological fear of heights.
• He is a pathological liar.
• That’s not pathological; that’s just a way for the world to be.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• For the 40 years after the war, there was this almost pathological fear to speak of the war.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 21 Dec. 2021
• But the truth is that while Trump didn’t foam at the mouth, his performance was still pathological.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020
• Each one is like a beloved child: unique and the product of a sometimes pathological level of love and care.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 July 2022
• All mass killers do not emerge from the same pathological matrix.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• My identity was formed and reformed around the needs of those around me and the pathological need to put myself last.
  — Lea Grover, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2020
• Instead of being praised as a straight-shooter, I was called a gold-digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
  — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
• In the interview, Anderson called L.J. a pathological liar, a thief and a bad kid.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
• For the next 100 years, these two pathological proteins—known as tau and amyloid—were the focus of research into the causes of the disease.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• Any new business founder will have a near-pathological fear of failure.
  — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• The whole affair is part of a pathological vendetta begun by the president of the United States.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• Counterops online campaign to push back and call her out as a pathological liar.
  — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• Most people have a pathological instinct to avoid adopting the habits of their parents.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• The Net at its most pathological – deranged and anonymous.
  — Joey Anuff, WIRED, 10 Sep. 1997
• Oliver, the pathological liar Keoghan plays in Saltburn, is the first role to become such a large part of his social narrative.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024
• The cynicism is, of course, rooted in Trump’s being a pathological liar and a charlatan, a flim-flam man.
  — Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• To be innocent of an offense and yet to confess your guilt—not for pathological reasons but purely to get ahead in the world—takes a certain panache.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• The fans, with a pathological obsession for winning, and the media demand wins.
  — Samindra Kunti, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Abnormal clumps of amyloid in the brain are a hallmark pathological sign of Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Stacey Burling, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• The work in the microbiome, in part, led to more recent work on viruses as Afeyan and his team questioned whether there are viruses in our bodies that aren’t pathological.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• This is due in part to some of the basic affinities of cinema as a medium, with its soft spot for fast-talking charmers and pathological con men.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• But this could all have to do with the fact that, clearly, Eric has a pathological relationship with his mother.
  — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
• The line between sane and insane, normal and pathological, has always been where society agrees to draw it.
  — Rebecca A. Seligman, STAT, 8 May 2018
• But in every film, Ghostface is someone different, many times a pair of people, linked by a pathological love of scary movies.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2022
• Do the Capitals have a pathological issue against the Penguins?
  — Hemal Jhaveri, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• This is not because black people are more broken or more pathological than any other group.
  — Brittney Cooper, Cosmopolitan, 14 July 2017
• Her need to be a caretaker is pathological but sad and, in some instances, comprehensible.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
• Sure, as Ferrari and Schwartz pointed out, there are pathological manifestations of indecision.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024