How to Use sociopathic in a Sentence

sociopathic

adjective

• But with the 2020 campaign and election, Trump topped even his own sociopathic shoot-from-the-lip self.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 July 2022
• This is hardly the first time Dornan has played a sociopathic killer.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• James was a sociopathic hunter who tracked and killed humans and vampires alike.
  — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
• Scenery is chewed as Wahlberg sports a faux Southern accent and flashes a sociopathic glint in his eye.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• At its center is Dix Steele, a sociopathic killer masquerading as a writer, who in the end turns out to be too smart for his own good.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Nyong’o stars as a kindergarten teacher saddled with both the ne’er-do-well uncle of one of her students and a sociopathic kids’-show star played by Josh Gad.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2021
• The Seven, led by Antony Starr’s sociopathic Homelander, rule with iron fists as the main supergroup.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• Along the way, what Carr found was not a sociopathic young woman who wanted the attention that her boyfriend’s death would likely bring her.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 12 June 2019
• People with the disorder have been portrayed in movies and TV shows as sociopathic, dangerous and the punchline to many a joke.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Are their leaders the loudest, most sociopathic members of their hives?
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
• There seems to be something in their DNA—a call to service, an ego, a sociopathic need to be loved—that compels them to do the tough, low-paying work in politics, at least for a while.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Platt, as an actor, is all heart, which makes his casting as the possibly sociopathic Payton seem like a strange choice.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
• Chrissy is a trend-setter in the vein of Regina George, but without the sociopathic tendencies.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 3 July 2017
• This story is a dark tour through a sociopathic mind, but Nutting has achieved something special.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Aug. 2021
• Come for the high-speed car chases, stay for Bradley Cooper as a sociopathic criminal with dreadlocks.
  — Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• The only defense is offense, which this sociopathic liar has practiced all his life.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• In all of these states, that near-sociopathic behavior was legal.
  — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 16 July 2015
• Creepy Chic is holding one of them, and Betty snatches him up as any concerned sister who's afraid his brother is a sociopathic cam-boy would.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2018
• The bad sound and slaughterhouse management of the human livestock by the venue and the sociopathic behavior of ticket-holders are not his fault.
  — Jackson Landers, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023
• The person that was brought into the leadership position was sociopathic and most of us who were involved were in our early 20s.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
• The problem is, Finley does such a complete job of building out the chilly milieu of Thoroughbreds that this clever thriller ends up being a smidge too sociopathic for its own good.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2018
• Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a sociopathic con man who, armed with a video camera and a police scanner, dives into the LA crime world to make money and a name for himself.
  — Robert English, EW.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• But the film is then careful to turn back around to J. Paul and investigate his monstrousness, his sociopathic greed, and question who might be the real villain in all of this.
  — Richard Lawson, HWD, 19 Dec. 2017
• Were there any semi-sociopathic pop culture cliques that inspired the Players?
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 30 July 2020
• Not in the borderline-sociopathic murderer way, but in the wanting to want something your heart doesn't really want way.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 13 July 2017
• That's really way more sociopathic than someone who doesn't really have much more control over it and is compelled to put this suit on.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• As the elder William (Ed Harris) tells it, his quest to find Dolores in the past led him to a dark place, eventually revealing his sociopathic nature.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
• But to put too much stock in that formula is to be Norman Mailer, and finish (if not start) a career as an unreadable, sociopathic clown.
  — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Because just for the record, Augustus was kind of a sociopathic murderer.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2023
• Editor’s picks With his sociopathic stare and dork glasses, Albini became a cult hero around the same time as subway gunman Bernard Goetz, and not for totally dissimilar reasons.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024