How to Use psychopathic in a Sentence

psychopathic

adjective
  • The Khashoggi murder fixed a view of the crown prince as brutish, thin-skinned, and psychopathic.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The idea that some psychopathic traits could be positive does not sit well with everyone.
    — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But as Fox argues, linking psychopathic killers with the mental-health system is no easy task.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Labell said Meyer has no socio- or psychopathic traits and is a low-risk to reoffend.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2020
  • So the things that people who are psychopathic have too little of, people who are very altruistic have more of.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Ryan Gosling plays across from Chris Evans, who breaks the mold by playing a psychopathic villain.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Evans plays his psychopathic ex-colleague leading the global manhunt.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In a year when even prominent films with notable pedigrees are failing to find traction, the psychopathic clown is cleaning up.
    — Adam Sternbergh, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • That was thanks to a sidesplitting re-creation of the famous moment when the poor kids' party is disrupted by that flock of psychopathic fowl.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
  • And this is a group were formerly led by Teddy, a psychopathic serial killer and doomsday prophet.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • This '90s cult favorite gave us a young Ben Stiller as a psychopathic fitness junkie at a camp for overweight kids.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Then there was Lloyd, the psychopathic assassin in The Gray Man.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The house reflects its psychopathic owner, a seemingly normal guy who is revealed to be a cannibal.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But Froushan has the chops to play any role, including those outside the usual psychopathic territory he’s placed in.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Some of them were psychopathic narcissists like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
    — Diane Carman, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
  • Leading the charge is a psychopathic former colleague named Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans).
    — cleveland, 24 May 2022
  • Even worse, if that’s possible, is that his psychopathic narcissism adds a selfish mean streak to his adolescent behavior.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Does anyone want to check the trunk of MacKinnon's car for ropes or bottles of bleach, because this is something a psychopathic killer would do.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Margolyes played the nurse to Martin’s psychopathic dentist in the maniacal farce.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Like a mercantile colony, all Putin has is a lot of land, raw materials, and psychopathic propaganda.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 23 May 2026
  • The story Harden tells is about his psychopathic roommate, Coyote, whose goal is to create a new religion.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The show, which follows a psychopathic assassin and the woman tracking her down, will return in 2019.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Dec. 2018
  • Like a mercantile colony, all Putin has is a lot of land, raw materials, and psychopathic propaganda.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
  • An image that a non-psychopathic algorithm sees as a group of people standing by a window is viewed as someone jumping from the window by Norman.
    — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • And in Halloween, Laurie Strode is hunted down by her estranged psychopathic brother.
    — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Making matters even worse for Chris is a spoiled rich kid with psychopathic tendencies who was none too happy to find coal under his tree on Christmas morning.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • At bare bones basics, both men come from essentially the same place, but external circumstances led one to be a vigilante hero, and the other to be a psychopathic villain.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The lyrics are florid, the action is sensationalized and psychopathic and the emotional range is operatic.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 26 June 2018
  • When a very talented killer named Villanelle and Eve go head to head in a fierce game of cat and mouse, Eve is determined to hunt down the psychopathic assassin.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 4 Nov. 2022
  • While shooting, Miller refrained from speaking with their mother for the entirety of the shoot to better inhabit the mind of their psychopathic character.
    — Vulture, 3 May 2023

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