psychopathic personality
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Jeno was committed as a psychopathic personality in 1992.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2014
This young man was endowed with a psychopathic personality, and there was a history of short attacks of depression.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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