sociopath
noun
a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
sociopaths
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pluralof sociopath.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
First, people who are that good at sizing up strangers are either sociopaths or survivors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Psychologists, too, make this mistake, believing that sociopaths are not strategic but, rather, mentally ill, because they were traumatized in childhood.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
It's just his special flourish to imagine the secret leaders are cat-loving, child-hating sociopaths.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024
But, except for Harry, all of us, including my father, had been called sociopaths at some time in our lives.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
