psychopathic personality

noun

1. psychiatry an antisocial personality characterized by the failure to develop any sense of moral responsibility and the capability of performing violent or antisocial acts

Example Sentences

As with other permanent conditions, these aspects of his psychopathic personality will not change.

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“What about mental conditions: feeble-mindedness, insanity, psychopathic personality, epilepsy, narcotic drug addiction, chronic alcoholism?”

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It’s no insult to Howerton to say that Dennis’s character can mostly be conveyed by an inert, silent dummy; his strutting, preening, psychopathic personality comes through just by looking at the doll’s blank face.

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He was civilly committed as a psychopathic personality in 1991 and sent to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

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At the time, immigration law banned “aliens afflicted with sexual deviation,” among others suffering from “psychopathic personality,” from entry to the United States.

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