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Recent Examples of sociopathic
The real Paik Sa-eon was born into the Paik family with sociopathic tendencies.
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Kayti Burt, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
But what the show ends up doing is withholding empathy for its protagonist, who looks increasingly sociopathic with each death that washes over her.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
Facing a potential payout in the tens of millions at the very least from an invasion of privacy lawsuit over some sloppy editing on a 2022 Blumhouse documentary about a sociopathic fertility doctor, Netflix has emerged having to write a relatively small check thanks to a Midwest jury.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the last movie — killer makeup effects and a great performance buried in a repetitive flick with a story that’s impossible to care about — but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular franchise.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Kayti Burt, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
But what the show ends up doing is withholding empathy for its protagonist, who looks increasingly sociopathic with each death that washes over her.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
Facing a potential payout in the tens of millions at the very least from an invasion of privacy lawsuit over some sloppy editing on a 2022 Blumhouse documentary about a sociopathic fertility doctor, Netflix has emerged having to write a relatively small check thanks to a Midwest jury.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
The third film about the sociopathic clown largely repeats the pros and cons of the last movie — killer makeup effects and a great performance buried in a repetitive flick with a story that’s impossible to care about — but that’s more than enough for fans of this increasingly popular franchise.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociopathic
Adjective
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Some people actually became less neurotic—that is, less depressed and anxious—after, say, a cancer diagnosis.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2025
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The sardonic, neurotic, introspective style of humor reflecting the ambivalence of postwar Jewish-American aspirations for assimilation, was reflected in the works of comedians from Woody Allen to Jerry Seinfeld.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Elizabeth became increasingly paranoid over the course of her 45-year reign, fearing a coup by subjects who clung to their Catholicism and favored another claim to the throne.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Feb. 2025
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Pino had previously committed Richard to a psychiatric hospital under the state’s Baker Act, one of nine times Richard was involuntarily committed; diagnosed variously as suicidal, paranoid, delusional and bipolar; given temporary stabilizing medication, and released within days.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In one scene together, Alec and Hilaria discuss the 30 Rock alum's obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Baldwin is shown cleaning the interior of a garbage can; Hilaria and one of his children gently rib him and describe him as obsessive-compulsive.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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One of the body’s own cells becomes damaged or corrupted and then multiplies to create copies of its aberrant self.—
Ingrid Wickelgren,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2025
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This not only paints a wider picture of his life and interests outside his Milan office, but frames his medical specialties as part of this natural world — his focus is the nature of human bodies, desires and impulses — rather than as something aberrant, as in the minds of detractors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.—
Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History,
TIME,
10 June 2024
Adjective
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The project will require trenching under the pathway and Dish’s agreement with the city is to restore any disturbed areas from the routing to existing conditions or better.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Jan. 2025
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When the soil or plant material is disturbed, tiny spores can be released into the air.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Rankin’s formative movies usually milked a faux-biopic format and played like delirious, black-and-white fever dreams, smothered with generous amounts of Absurdism pushed past its limits and self-deprecating Canadian in-jokes.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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The money goes to the family of the 10-year-old boy who corralled the ball in the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium amid the delirious celebration after Freeman homered with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Dodgers one out away from defeat.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Dec. 2024
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“Sociopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociopathic. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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