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Recent Examples of sicko
While the sicko elites bask in the violence, Kawaji sees the Kodoku as a means of exterminating the remaining samurai, who have staged multiple rebellions against the Japanese empire.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Nov. 2025
After the horrific attack, a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to the sicko’s arrest.
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Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2024
What kind of sicko would move his family into a home where gruesome murders happened?
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Leigh Hewett,
EW.com,
15 Dec. 2022
The sicko was previously rumored to have had a fascination with dead cats and had threatened to kidnap, kill and rape girls who shunned him online.
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Fox News,
31 May 2022
Dating, of course, is a separate animal from long-term relationships—and more prone to ghostings and dud dates and the occasional absolute sicko.
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Alex McElroy,
ELLE,
16 Feb. 2022
Two From Spanish sicko Mar Targarona comes this fine addition to the canon of People Stuck To Things cinema, joining the sadistic likes of Saw and Netflix’s own Gerald’s Game.
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Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2021
Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood, covers a lot of territory in three acts, all set in the Los Angeles of 1969 just as Charles Manson was working his sicko spell on a group of slavish followers.
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Time,
22 July 2019
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Nov. 2025
After the horrific attack, a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to the sicko’s arrest.
—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2024
What kind of sicko would move his family into a home where gruesome murders happened?
—
Leigh Hewett,
EW.com,
15 Dec. 2022
The sicko was previously rumored to have had a fascination with dead cats and had threatened to kidnap, kill and rape girls who shunned him online.
—
Fox News,
31 May 2022
Dating, of course, is a separate animal from long-term relationships—and more prone to ghostings and dud dates and the occasional absolute sicko.
—
Alex McElroy,
ELLE,
16 Feb. 2022
Two From Spanish sicko Mar Targarona comes this fine addition to the canon of People Stuck To Things cinema, joining the sadistic likes of Saw and Netflix’s own Gerald’s Game.
—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2021
Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood, covers a lot of territory in three acts, all set in the Los Angeles of 1969 just as Charles Manson was working his sicko spell on a group of slavish followers.
—
Time,
22 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sicko
Noun
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Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.
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You are being spied on by a pervert.
Noun
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But while his recent albums with Tony Seltzer and Subjxct 5 resurfaced some of the dynamism brought by Sporting Life during his younger years as the fire-breathing degenerate who tied Ratking together, that energy takes a backseat here.
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Now playback all the degenerate, violent entertainment Julianne has happily participated in throughout her career.
Noun
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The protagonist of A Love Story is a lover boy, a libertine, a gossip, a flirt.
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The libertines will begin the film in suits.
Noun
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Red Cross volunteers handed out supplies such as gloves, rakes, tarps, and more to homeowners.
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Just sprinkle them around the base of your plants and scratch them into the soil with a hand rake or your fingers.
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