Sentence examples for sociopath from inspiring English sources
The word "sociopath" is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to a person who either lacks the ability or has no interest in forming meaningful emotional attachments to other people. For example, "The criminal was described as a sociopath, as he lacked any kind of remorse for his actions."
noun
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.
Lead actor Tatiana Maslany plays eight (and counting) cloned versions of herself, flitting seamlessly between characters including a cop, a Ukrainian sociopath, and an uptight soccer mom with a drink problem.
"He's the best we have!" "He's not worth it!" When oh when could I return to the halcyon days of innocence when We Need to Talk About Kevin just made me think of a teenage sociopath using a crossbow to commit mass murder?
Jake Gyllenhaal might well be the frontrunner as best drama actor: his leading turn in Nightcrawler as the adrenalin-junkie sociopath selling newsporn crime video footage to the TV networks is terrific.
If we're honest, the adult doesn't really exist either – it was probably because she was sleep-deprived that Thatcher was such a sociopath.
As Steven Poole has pointed out, if you push spontaneity to its logical limits you end up with a sociopath.
Your baby will grow up a sociopath.
Stereotyping does not help the good ones to work together, as they must if we are to repair the deficiencies in our societies.Sir Mark Moody-StuartLondonSIR – Perhaps it is better to compare the corporation to a sociopath, not a psychopath.
"He's clearly a sociopath," says Georgina Sánchez, an organised-crime analyst.
Comparing a corporation to a sociopath would be much more apt.Lisa MillsBostonPast caringSIR – I have to wonder about the book review that states of Alexander Hamilton that "most Americans know him as their country's first treasury secretary" ("A maker of America", May 8th).
The volunteers called Mr Pearce a sociopath, and worse.
Exiled from Rome for murder, famed as both genius and sociopath, he was protected by a coterie of corrupt cardinals and the Knights of Malta.
