Definitions
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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
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								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 
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								Dumb's maybe an unfair generalisation, so let's add the word sociopathic to the mix and we'll call itevens, Stephens. 
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								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 ... 
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								"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 
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								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 
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								“You are referring to the sociopathic personality.” BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995 
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								“You are referring to the sociopathic personality.” BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995 
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								“You are referring to the sociopathic personality.” BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995 
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								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. 
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								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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