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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
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Noun
  • The first introduced the audience to the cast of the film: Sally Hawkins, playing a kindly foster mother who — as Danny introduced her — might be a psychopath, Billy Barratt and Sora Wong as her two new foster kids, and Jonah Wren Phillips as her younger, troubled foster son.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In separate filings, the defense is also asking the court to limit the use of the words murder, psychopath and sociopath.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That joke might be fine if everyone in Smash were a maniac.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • And one week after his party homicidal maniacs had started a war that, among a great many other shocking and despicable things, had alienated his daughter from him and from her family and people.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 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
  • Holding out hope for Hannah’s return, or Janine’s liberation, or… anything, really, by this point in the Hulu drama’s final run can feel like a fool’s errand.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • That said, sense-making is a fool’s errand in this era.
    Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Sicko.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sicko. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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