How to Use psychopath in a Sentence

psychopath

noun
  • This psychopath is a real piece of work.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Is this a psychopath or sociopath?
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Is the killer one of the children that was shown in utero to have the psychopath gene?
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • No one is pro-war except for psychopaths (of whom the world has more than a few).
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • And for me, big walks, big crazy walks in the middle of nowhere alone, like a psychopath.
    — Outside Online, 25 June 2025
  • This time, Raylan’s in a cat-and-mouse game with a psychopath.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Female psychopaths are a dime a dozen in the world of Killing Eve!
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 25 May 2020
  • Then Lexie gets involved with two of her clients, both of whom are psychopaths.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
  • The point here is not to paint an alarmist picture of truckers as road-raging psychopaths.
    — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
  • 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
  • Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country!
    — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • After all the number crunching, what was the top psychopath hotspot?
    — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 19 June 2018
  • This isn’t because Wall Street is full of psychopaths who want to watch the world burn.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • Egads, there's a demented psychopath popping out of the wall.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Fox News host Mark Levin is a raging psychopath.
    — Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Decades later, the same killer is still on death row and a new psychopath is murdering people.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In some ways, the study of successful psychopaths takes the field back to the beginning.
    — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The show of emotion notably implies that Ka-young is no longer a psychopath.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s what Keith Raniere is, a psychopath or a sociopath.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Years ago there was a research study that determined cats are psychopaths (or something like that).
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • All’s Fair is The First Wives Club for psychopaths.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • April may be the cruelest month, but February’s a psychopath.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Kristen scoffs and tells the guys that her assessment of Leland as a psychopath stands.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 June 2021
  • Who better to play Juliet’s psychopath cousin than Chuck Bass?
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The idea that people actually want to be with the psychopath and the murderer is a joke.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2019
  • How did the character of Joel—who is not a straightforward psychopath, if there is such a thing—come to you?
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
  • This time around, however, the trio in the title does not refer to the original line-up of psychopaths.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2019

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