How to Use sociopath in a Sentence

sociopath

noun
  • Is this a psychopath or sociopath?
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Worse, not a single sociopath banker went to jail or even lost a bonus on his watch.
    — D. Roger Pederson, Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • The movie isn’t really about the sociopath who did these things.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But the old friends soon run into a coke-snorting pair of rich sociopaths who do.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 19 May 2018
  • This is not just a handful of sociopaths living out a 4chan meme.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
  • If the prisoners lose, viewers vote on the weapons the sociopaths use to kill them.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 12 June 2024
  • Early settlers could well turn out to be sociopaths or outlaws.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • During the trial, my husband’s lawyer called her a sociopath.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
  • What kind of person is willing to run away with a sociopath forever?
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
  • For only one sociopath to hold a seat in Congress is notable.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • First, people who are that good at sizing up strangers are either sociopaths or survivors.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • And that’s what Keith Raniere is, a psychopath or a sociopath.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2021
  • These sociopaths have no rhyme or reason, and that’s part of the fascination of these films.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • That is what the sociopath experience is almost all the time.
    — David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Psychopaths are born that way, while sociopaths have been socialized into it.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • Why does the opening of a cardboard box give me tacit permission to act like a sociopath?
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Over the last two months, the podcast has seemed less like distinct episodes than chapters in the story of a sociopath.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • There are and have been sociopaths and pedophiles in all cultures, in all communities.
    — Author: Chantelle Pence, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 July 2017
  • Fassbender says only a sociopath would do the things Martian does.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
  • The people who do not make this consideration are straight-up sociopaths.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Stir in a spookily resilient murderous sociopath, and things get, as the phrase goes, action-packed.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Even though Dan did turn out to be a sociopath in running a gossip site about all his friends, Joe is the more complex role.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
  • She was flattened onto the pavement into obscurity by the sociopath in the nice dress, the press, and the law.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Stephen Dorff, who is such a good actor, plays Ketchum as a stone sociopath with a broad condescending grin.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Is Strangis really a ‘sociopath’ who abused Melngailis and stole from her restaurant?
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But Bloom says just because Jane killed Billy doesn’t mean the sociopath didn’t have feelings for him.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Other plots include Bex and Rufus (snooze) and hints that Jenny may very well be a sociopath.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Reese Witherspoon is a fellow southern blonde who plays a great type-A sociopath, if a little young for this role.
    — Emma Dibdin, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Del Toro is quietly terrifying as the charming sociopath who flashes a smile one minute then growls the next.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019

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