Crossword clues for sociopath
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1930, coined by psychologist G.E. Partridge from socio- on model of psychopath.
Wiktionary
n. A person with an antisocial personality disorder, exhibiting antisocial behavior that usually is the result of social and environmental factors in the person's early life.
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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') [syn: psychopath]
Usage examples of "sociopath".
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.
Some sociopaths could put on a false persona that was more convincing than the best performances of the finest actors who had ever lived, and this man was probably one of those, although after immersion in wanton slaughter, he needed this period of adjustment to remind himself of the manners and courtesies of civilized society.
It fit a pattern of bell curves I had been studying for years: reports on sociopaths and their children.
Little did it matter that he was now living among sociopaths and psychopaths.
D U S T T 0 D U S T 265 first concern is to stay alive long enough to raise her children not to be sociopaths.
Sociopath, psychopath, whatever you like, Matt had always preferred bampot.
I know some authorities believe sociopaths are really thinly veiled psychotics - Cleckley wrote that they wore a mask of sanity - but they don't usually decompensate and turn psychotic, do they?
He's a progressive, lust-driven sociopath who's lost touch with reality and is treating what he's doing like it's some big computer game.
This will be the dumping ground for every incompetent, troublemaker or sociopath who can't hold office, and there will be no protection against it.
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
Very few morks are sociopaths, but most sociopaths are morks, if you understand what I’m saying.
Very few morks are sociopaths, but most sociopaths are morks, if you understand what I'm saying.
It took a particular brand of sociopath to operate a 'one strike and you're out' social policy of identifying fatal character flaws.
Oh, sociopaths turned up every now and then, of course, but what Albert (when he and I discussed such matters) called “the preconditions for opportunistic crime” were scarce.