sociopathic
- adjective
- /ˌsoʊsiəˈpæθɪk/
- Specialized
- His sociopathic tendencies made it difficult for him to form genuine relationships with others.
- sociopathic tendencies
- sociopathic personality
- sociopathic behavior
There's there are sociopathic mice who just kill other mice.
- There's there are sociopathic mice who just kill other mice.
- He is a horrible, horrible, sociopathic war criminal.
- Because you would have far fewer police enforcing nonsensical edicts from sociopathic politicians.
- Psychopathic and to some degree sociopathic people do not care about that as much, but narcissistic people do.
- This guy's a sociopathic, tyrannical dictator and nobody should listen to a goddamn word this idiot says.
- And again, these are themes that I know, like I'm talking about now, can almost look quite premeditated and planned and maybe a little bit sociopathic.
- People who have sociopathic tendencies do have a conscience, but are still perfectly happy to work in moral, legal, and ethical Gray areas.
- Bipolar, narcissistic, sociopathic, and everything in between.
- And then there's a profit incentive for sociopathic surgeons to profit off that.
- In a sociopathic room, which I think everyone is a little bit sociopathic.
- I think like on recent parts it looks like I just look to play really creepy psychopath for sociopathic people.
Examples
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We have all been living in a sociopathic fraud bubble for the last several decades.
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Politicians are four times more likely to be sociopathic than you and I.
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- High intelligence is not unusual with a sociopathic personality.
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Yes, that makes you look sociopathic, not to mention your lack of regard for women's lives.
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In my experience, most of them exhibit what could be called sociopathic tendencies.
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Locking the children in suggests a sociopathic personality.
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Many have serious personality disorders with borderline or sociopathic features.
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Maybe once in a while, in a strongly religious community, a sociopathic preacher could emerge.
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Many in mainstream society characterize gang members as psychopathic and sociopathic, yet understand relatively little about them.
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Sadists typically exhibit sociopathic personalities, lacking guilt, shame, or remorse for their behavior.
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Synonyms
Not caring about others and often hurting them
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A person who does not care about others, acts without thinking, and feels no guilt
How Antisocial
- Specialized
- UK
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sociopathic breaks into socio- meaning 'society' and -pathic from the Greek word 'pathos' meaning 'feeling', as in social and sympathy. So a sociopathic person is someone who shows little 'feeling' for other people or for society.