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Psychopathic

Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, n. [Psycho- + Gr. ?, ?.] (Med.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. -- Psy`cho*path"ic, a. -- Psy*chop"a*thist, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
psychopathic

1847, from psychopathy on model of German psychopatisch, from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + pathos "suffering" (see pathos).

Wiktionary
psychopathic

a. Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.

WordNet
psychopathic

adj. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder [syn: psychopathologic, psychopathological]

Usage examples of "psychopathic".

We could put the psychopathic killers together on one world and let them stalk each other, and to hell with all of them.

It had become apparent soon after the sex gates appeared that violent psychopathic criminals rarely, if ever, made it through a gate.

A new body and a psychopathic personality might indeed be a lethal combination.

I intend to use those powers to try and cure you of your psychopathic tendencies.

Sorensen so intelligently pointed out, psychopathic behavior is usually very distinctive -- it is characterized by impulsiveness, stupidity, and errors due to an attention span limited by emotional disorder.

The characteristics that make up a psychopathic personality are found in many people who never kill anyone--we call them sub criminal psychopaths.

His reason for killing women after he has used them can be sheer psychopathic hatred, flaring to highest pitch with or immediately after the orgasm.

Benny out of going to the cops to give himself up as the psychopathic killer.

He knew he was sitting two stools away from the psychopathic killer who was terrorizing the city.

Nothing psychopathic, none of the cold cruelty that had flavored the murder.

Still, I had no logical reason to believe that a psychopathic killer could be out here in California, possibly stalking Inspector Jamilla Hughes.

I had no qualms about doing this to a dying man, and no compunction: he was doomed anyway, he was a psychopathic monster who killed for the love of it and, most of all.

This is odd, more typical of a burglary or robbery, certainly not the usual in a psychopathic violent crime.

During the Twentieth Century several nation-states, major and minor, were headed by psychopathic sociopaths.

It was a hint the rest of the world ignored: that the entire population might consist of psychopathic sociopaths.