psychopathic personality

British  

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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.

From The New Yorker

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

From The New Yorker

One of nine children, Teed had two previous convictions for violence, had been thrown out of the RAF, and had a history of psychopathic personality disorders.

From BBC

Waddington, the medical officer at Durham Prison, acknowledged Evans's "abnormal personality" and thought most doctors would consider him an individual with a "psychopathic personality, using this term in the broadest sense".

From BBC