schizoid

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Recent Examples of schizoid The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast. Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024 The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024 Why not make a of couple bucks off your other 21st-century schizoid man? Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024 Less than 1% of individuals develop schizoid personality disorder. Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023 There's no way to prevent schizoid or other personality disorders. Jessica Migala, Health, 17 Nov. 2023 For example, a mathematician with a schizoid personality might be perfectly comfortable calculating in solitude. Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023 Acting isn't schizoid like that. Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 13 Mar. 2022 She was described in the ratings as the highest scorer on paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder of all the characters (see figure 2). Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizoid
Adjective
  • On Tuesday, June 15, Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute, the neurotic office worker and beet farmer on the beloved series, shared two Instagram photos from his reunion with Jenna Fischer, the face behind everyone's favorite receptionist/ sales and office coordinator, Pam Beesly.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 17 July 2025
  • The trouble with Genovese’s approach is that each tiny choice sparks a kind of mental skirmish — some of them justified, as when Lara’s ex interrupts their dinner — such that the two come across as even more neurotic than your typical Woody Allen character.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Nicole Mitchell said Carol Mitchell seemed paranoid that her name was on the documents.
    Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 17 July 2025
  • Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provided the Georgian Dream with a powerful but paranoid message: that the West is trying to drag Georgia into the war.
    Jill Dougherty, CNN Money, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The offensive lineman's 2024 NFL campaign ended prematurely due to Smith's struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Sami Sheen has opened up about her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a new video posted to social media.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • The cells have an ugly, disordered appearance under a microscope.
    Adam B. Kushner, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • In more severe cases, this ongoing pattern may erode a parent’s relationship with food, leading to emotional or disordered eating that feels increasingly difficult to name, let alone break.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • That this sociopathic posting style is coming out of this administration—that it has been so thoroughly mainstreamed by the right—suggests that the cultural architecture of the internet has changed.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The exception might be those with sociopathic tendencies, research shows that to be a relatively small percentage of the population.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Two others, delirious from drinking seawater, slid into the ocean and were killed by sharks in front of Cavanagh and another crewmate.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
  • For the past few days, though, the internet has been gripped with Monterrey wall fever, the kind of mass hysteria that can really only take hold during the long, delirious advance of a summer tournament.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • The answer is that France at this time was attempting to heal its wartime wounds, papering over the cracks in the social fabric that had opened up during the German Occupation and positioning itself as a nation of resisters, in which collaborators had been few and aberrant.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
  • The only aberrant response came from a gaunt middle-aged man on a towel.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Reeder had been reportedly running in the road and Irondale Police were called on a mentally disturbed person.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 July 2025
  • That something dark, disturbed, or rotted lurks in a place of light.
    Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 20 July 2025

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“Schizoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schizoid. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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