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Recent Examples of sicko After the horrific attack, a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to the sicko’s arrest. Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024 What kind of sicko would move his family into a home where gruesome murders happened? Leigh Hewett, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022 The sicko was previously rumored to have had a fascination with dead cats and had threatened to kidnap, kill and rape girls who shunned him online. Fox News, 31 May 2022 Dating, of course, is a separate animal from long-term relationships—and more prone to ghostings and dud dates and the occasional absolute sicko. Alex McElroy, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2022 Two From Spanish sicko Mar Targarona comes this fine addition to the canon of People Stuck To Things cinema, joining the sadistic likes of Saw and Netflix’s own Gerald’s Game. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021 But now that Logan has had to confront the fact that his son is, in his opinion, a sicko? Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021 Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood, covers a lot of territory in three acts, all set in the Los Angeles of 1969 just as Charles Manson was working his sicko spell on a group of slavish followers. Time, 22 July 2019 After the Parkland, Florida, shooting, even President Trump was quick to blame the perpetrator’s mental health and the mental health system, using words like nuts, crazy, and sicko to describe him. Jessica A. Gold, M.d., Glamour, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sicko
Noun
  • In the teaser, David says that every single person is a narcissistic psychopath on this show.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Gibson is making 1991’s Dexter his own, Brown said, by thriving in the complex mask-work that’s required to play a lethal psychopath learning to conceal his still-emerging condition.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Isaiah Stewart has become a defensive maniac as a full-time center.
    Fred Katz, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Whiplash Watch on Netflix Photo: Courtesy of TIFF Woman of the Hour Year: 2024 Runtime: 1h 35m Director: Anna Kendrick One of the best thrillers of 2024 also marks the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick, who stars as a woman who had a brush with a maniac.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Texturally, the series is best categorized as a psycho-thriller, but the design of the episodes is never redundant.
    WIRED, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Another summer, another hook-wielding psycho killer — and maybe some familiar faces too.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • Another disaster might make the Steelers or any team fools for casting their lot with Pickens.
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Wednesday’s game could be a Finals preview, but predicting June’s outcomes in January feels like a fool’s errand.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Sicko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicko. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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