How to Use psychopath in a Sentence

psychopath

noun

• Is the killer one of the children that was shown in utero to have the psychopath gene?
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• The psychopath bit his own tongue off and choked on it.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Female psychopaths are a dime a dozen in the world of Killing Eve!
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 25 May 2020
• This time, Raylan’s in a cat-and-mouse game with a psychopath.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• The latter is your run-of-the-mill loudmouth psychopath.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
• This isn’t because Wall Street is full of psychopaths who want to watch the world burn.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 July 2024
• No one is pro-war except for psychopaths (of whom the world has more than a few).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• One of the bits toward the end of the show is that most great things in life come from psychopaths and drug addicts.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• There could be a psychopath sitting next to you right now.
  — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• Seems like an easy choice, though by the end of the latter film, you might be inclined to take your chances with the psychopath.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• In some ways, the study of successful psychopaths takes the field back to the beginning.
  — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the workplace, at first a psychopath may seem charming.
  — Cinthia Beccacece Satornino, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Early on, the big question was set up: Is this man a psychopath?
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Tony Leung was supposed to play that role, the psychopath.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
• She should be joined by costar Comer, every bit Oh’s equal on the show in the flashier psychopath role.
  — Glenn Whipp, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Most great things are from psychopaths and drug addicts.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2024
• And that’s what Keith Raniere is, a psychopath or a sociopath.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2021
• His acting teeth are sharpened and ready to chew the scenery as the presaged bona fide psychopath.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• When the sister is entrapped by a psychopath, her brother races against the clock to save her.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
• Few of the women Motz treats are sui-generis psychopaths.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• After all the number crunching, what was the top psychopath hotspot?
  — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 19 June 2018
• As a portrait of a psychopath in the guise of dutiful wife, 1945’s Leave Her to Heaven has more punch.
  — Charles Taylor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2017
• The point here is not to paint an alarmist picture of truckers as road-raging psychopaths.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
• That psychopath salesman is Gong Yoo, and baby, you’re sold.
  — Amanda Rosenberg, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• Egads, there's a demented psychopath popping out of the wall.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The idea that people actually want to be with the psychopath and the murderer is a joke.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2019
• The psychopath in question is a disgruntled client kicked off one of the bike tours led by the writer, Caitlin Giddings.
  — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
• Kristen scoffs and tells the guys that her assessment of Leland as a psychopath stands.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 June 2021
• For two supposedly unhinged psychopaths who are meant to be enabling each other’s madness, Arthur and Lee don’t have a scintilla of creativity between them.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• The researchers extend the psychopath analogy by noting that the AI was judged as more rational and intelligent than humans but not more emotional or compassionate.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024