noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dr Green said that, in his opinion, Perry was a dangerous psychopath who might kill again.
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Police described the killer as a psychopath .
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The main character in the movie is Dr Hannibal Lector, who displays all the characteristics of a psychopath .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He let some one into that church, a thief, another derelict, a psychopath , and that person killed him.
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He was convinced decades ago that psychopaths were the coming thing and soon would pass for normal.
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In a medical book, the psychopath is cold-blooded, premeditated, uncaring, manipulative.
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On several occasions she has been hurried through them by impatient attorneys and by irate psychopaths on their way to methadone-maintenance clinics.
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Only a psychopath would include children in the instruction.
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The psychopath , even so, falls far short of the ideal of philosophical egoism.
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The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.
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The danger of other psychopaths who, now and then, unhappily become our leaders has been recognized as well.