Crossword clues for psychopath
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885, in the criminal psychology sense, a back-formation from psychopathic.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph had, the other day, a long article commenting on a Russian woman who had murdered a little girl. A Dr. Balinsky prevailed upon the jury to give a verdict of acquittal, because she was a "psychopath." The Daily Telegraph regards this term as a new coinage, but it has been long known amongst Spiritualists, yet in another sense.
["The Medium and Daybreak," Jan. 16, 1885]
\nThe case alluded to, and the means of acquittal, were briefly notorious in England and brought the word into currency in the modern sense.Wiktionary
n. 1 A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulation, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusion of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses. 2 A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder. 3 A person who has no moral conscience. 4 A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
WordNet
n. someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') [syn: sociopath]
Wikipedia
The Psychopath (also known as An Eye for an Eye) is a 1973 horror film written by Walter Dallenbach, produced and directed by Larry G. Brown and has Beverly Hills Cop star John Ashton as one of its co-stars.
Psychopath is a 1968 Italian-German crime film directed by Guido Zurli and starring Klaus Kinski.
Psychopath can refer to:
- Psychopathy
- Psychopath (1968 film), a 1968 film
- Psychopath (1973 film), a 1973 film
- The Psychopath, a 1966 film
Usage examples of "psychopath".
Psychopath ROUs are bound for the Excession but the rest are down for defensive duties elsewhere to cope with likely threats from Affront battle units.
The characteristics that make up a psychopathic personality are found in many people who never kill anyone--we call them sub criminal psychopaths.
I think of the crashes of psychopaths, implausible accidents carried out with venom and self-disgust, vicious multiple collisions contrived in stolen cars on evening freeways among tired office-workers.
He had been diagnosed as a psychopath and sexual sadist and had a history of assaults against women.
Psychopaths Jane Elias leapt to the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic seven years ago with her first novel, Death on Arrival, which introduced forensic psychologist Dr.
Rorschach blots interpreted by the patient had become Rorschach blobs manipulated unconsciously by the patient, and Phillips could classify the crew members with certainty: schizoids, cycloids, paranoids, homosexuals, sadists, incipient homicides psychopaths.
The chief of staff and I talked for a few minutes in the hallway He went out of his way to tell me that I had been handpicked for the investigation because of my expertise with high-profile killers, especially psychopaths.
To ensure that our Dodge City reputation never ebbs, many South Florida legislators backed a new state gun law that enables practically any glassy-eyed psychopath to arm himself on a whim.
Little did it matter that he was now living among sociopaths and psychopaths.
And although carnies honor eccentricity, they are no more enamored of homicidal psychopaths than is the straight world.
Sociopath, psychopath, whatever you like, Matt had always preferred bampot.
The antagonist, Zach Provo, whom Burgade put behind prison bars, is clearly a psychopath set upon obtaining revenge.
But he adapted quickly enough, and by the time the fifth homicidal psychopath had tried his level best to kill them (that is, within the first mile) he found his voice and said, with a fair imitation of diffidence, "I didn't think they'd decriminalized murder this early.
More likely, however, you were being confronted by a drug-blasted psychopath who wanted to carve a crack pipe from your femur and use your skin as the cloth for a decorative cozy to cover his favorite beheading ax.
Security was geared to combat any action by a psychopath, reasonably enough: there were always psychopaths in the crowd whenever a VIP did the rounds.