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psychopathic personality

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

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2023

In 1991, Duvall was civilly committed as a psychopathic personality and sent to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

From Fox News • Sep. 20, 2018

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 • Sep. 7, 2018

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

From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2018

He also showed striking evidences of a psychopathic personality with a strong suggestion of epilepsy, but with intact intelligence.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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