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  • adjective Having the characteristics of a sociopath.
  • adjective Unconcerned about the adverse consequences for others of one's actions.
  • noun rare A sociopath.

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  • adjective of or relating to a sociopathic personality disorder

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Examples

  • The bigger problem is what do you do with a very small subset of the population that is enormously resistant to fact and continues to act in sociopathic ways?

    Conservative Bloggers Launch Campaign to Waste Energy : Law is Cool 2009

  • Dumb's maybe an unfair generalisation, so let's add the word sociopathic to the mix and we'll call itevens, Stephens.

    A Gen-Xer Exhales 8 Years Of Britney's Bush 2008

  • And this murder was not -- what it ` s looking like is they were shot when they were asleep, an expeditious white-out, get rid of it, clean it up, get rich quick, get rid of things quickly, you know, sort of do things in a pragmatic -- forgive the word sociopathic, but -- sociopathic without conscience kind of way ...

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2006 2006

  • "We feel we need to be “tough on crime”, yet our solution of sending large amounts of our population to a place that can only realistically make them even more dangerous and sociopathic is naïve at best, stupid at best too."

    7 CHS Students Beat, Urinate on Fellow Student at cvillenews.com 2002

  • We feel we need to be “tough on crime”, yet our solution of sending large amounts of our population to a place that can only realistically make them even more dangerous and sociopathic is naïve at best, stupid at best too.

    7 CHS Students Beat, Urinate on Fellow Student at cvillenews.com 2002

  • “You are referring to the sociopathic personality.”

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • “You are referring to the sociopathic personality.”

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • “You are referring to the sociopathic personality.”

    BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995

  • If you want to back up a woman her brother describes as a sociopathic liar you should at least leave your endorsement up when she is also shown to be a psychopathic murderer.

    UUpdates - All updates 2009

  • Considering that these amoral - some might suggest "sociopathic" - institutions almost gutted the globe's financial system in September 2008, any issue to which they attach themselves should be viewed with considerable alarm.

    Resource Investor - Main Content Feed Arnold Bock 2010

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