Explore Psychopathic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like psychopathological or insane. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Psychopathic in a sentence
Psychopathic meaning
Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.
Synonyms of Psychopathic
Using Psychopathic
- The main meaning on this page is: Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.
- Useful related words include: psychopathologic, psychopathological, insane.
- In the example corpus, psychopathic often appears in combinations such as: of psychopathic, the psychopathic, psychopathic traits.
Context around Psychopathic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Psychopathic
- In this selection, "psychopathic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, yet, leaders, mildly, traits, self and gangster stand out and add context to how "psychopathic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and some psychopathic and as mildly psychopathic which is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "psychopathic" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with psychopathic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That's beyond creepy, that's psychopathic. (7 words)
David Howard Thornton again plays the psychopathic Art the Clown. (10 words)
Giulio’s is borderline psychopathic, whereas Francis surprisingly kept his head. (11 words)
Responding to questioning from the standards commissioner about the incident with Ms Bardell, the 82-year-old is said to have accused the MP of having a “serious mental illness and psychopathic disorder” and labelled the accusations a “lying tirade”. (40 words)
Or is supposed to, except that people on the psychopathic spectrum are unable to feel any empathy for others and consequently are equally unable to take any responsibility for their actions and the suffering they cause others. (37 words)
Batman has a long list of enemies, ranging from evil cult leaders, psychopathic mass killers, and a plethora of crime bosses, all hell-bent on putting an end to the caped crusader’s vigilante act. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
As such, the show could and should give Homelander an equally uninspiring demise, cutting right at the heart of his psychopathic self-importance.
Egerton portrays Edward ‘Mad Teddy’ Smith a good-looking yet psychopathic gangster rumoured to have had affairs with Ronnie and former MP Tom Driberg.
People with psychopathic traits have a lack of empathy, impulsivity, and a disregard for social norms and rules, while narcissists have an inflated sense of self-importance, entitlement, and a need for admiration.
Russia’s rapid descent into a psychopathic frenzy is so frankly bizarre that it demands an explanation.
That's beyond creepy, that's psychopathic.
The movie centers around a CIA black ops assassin called Six () and fellow agent Dani () as they are hunted down by a psychopathic former CIA agent, Lloyd Hansen ().
Batman has a long list of enemies, ranging from evil cult leaders, psychopathic mass killers, and a plethora of crime bosses, all hell-bent on putting an end to the caped crusader’s vigilante act.
David Howard Thornton again plays the psychopathic Art the Clown.
If he qualifies as mildly psychopathic — which is actually pretty likely — then I am in close proximity to a psychopath.
Just finished both seasons of Worst Roommate Ever, and every single "worst roommate" was a narcissistic personality type, and some psychopathic.
Only around 0.6 percent of British adults are considered to have clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits.
Some might remember the track “You’re Gorgeous” by Babybird, which painted paparazzi as the psychopathic objectifiers they were in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The only person he listens to is himself and as he sinks further and further into psychopathic dementia, his belief is that he, and only, he knows what to do.
With a lighthearted voice and fussiness, Johnny Depp creates a version of Willy Wonka that is less psychopathic than Gene Wilder’s.
As always, ordinary Iranians have been the main victim of the Islamist regime’s incompetence and psychopathic indifference toward its own citizens.
Bill is tasked with being partners with Slim, the psychopathic, "covetous, gratingly pansexual Irish bastard" who paid to him Bill and his wife killed, and it starts about how you'd expect.
Giulio’s is borderline psychopathic, whereas Francis surprisingly kept his head.
Hush is a relentlessly paced film in which a deaf and dumb author, living in a remote spot, has to escape the clutches of a psychopathic killer.
Or is supposed to, except that people on the psychopathic spectrum are unable to feel any empathy for others and consequently are equally unable to take any responsibility for their actions and the suffering they cause others.
Responding to questioning from the standards commissioner about the incident with Ms Bardell, the 82-year-old is said to have accused the MP of having a “serious mental illness and psychopathic disorder” and labelled the accusations a “lying tirade”.
Common combinations with psychopathic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of psychopathic 5×
- the psychopathic 4×
- psychopathic traits 3×
- and psychopathic 3×
- his psychopathic 2×
- with psychopathic 2×
- into psychopathic 2×
- by psychopathic 2×
- psychopathic serial 2×
- psychopathic and 2×