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
• Then there was Lloyd, the psychopathic assassin in The Gray Man.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2023
• Ryan Gosling plays across from Chris Evans, who breaks the mold by playing a psychopathic villain.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 June 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
• 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
• Cat owners did not like all psychopathic traits in cats.
  — Julia Métraux, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• One the hustler, the other the brains, the two push all around them to breaking point, while a psychopathic trader and former boss will stop at nothing to see them fail.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2017
• The third part of the Dark Triad is psychopathic behavior.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Leading the charge is a psychopathic former colleague named Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans).
  — cleveland, 24 May 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
• Labell said Meyer has no socio- or psychopathic traits and is a low-risk to reoffend.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2020
• But as Fox argues, linking psychopathic killers with the mental-health system is no easy task.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• The idea that some psychopathic traits could be positive does not sit well with everyone.
  — David Adam, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Some of them were psychopathic narcissists like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
  — Diane Carman, The Denver Post, 11 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
• 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
• Jamie Lee Curtis is a rookie cop determined to catch the psychopathic killer who is obsessed with her in Bigelow's audacious '90s thriller.
  — Robert English, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• And this is a group were formerly led by Teddy, a psychopathic serial killer and doomsday prophet.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Chigurh's outfit, on display from the 2007 movie, brings to life the psychopathic murderer determined to find millions of dollars left over from a drug deal gone wrong.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Russia’s war in Ukraine, helmed by an apparently psychopathic Vladimir Putin, rages on as the atrocities mount and the Western world finds itself in a horrible bind.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• Margolyes played the nurse to Martin’s psychopathic dentist in the maniacal farce.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Known as the Phantom of the Opera, the maleficent figure is a controlling, psychopathic specter who has fallen in love with his instrument and spreads death and chaos to remain the undisputed master of the Opera, and of Christine’s heart.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• They: Are caught up in a spiraling thriller, danger from a psychopathic killer looming everywhere.
  — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• And in Halloween, Laurie Strode is hunted down by her estranged psychopathic brother.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 19 Nov. 2018
• The house reflects its psychopathic owner, a seemingly normal guy who is revealed to be a cannibal.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024