Pathological

//ˌpæθ.əˈlɑd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl//

"Pathological" in a Sentence (12 examples)

One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is pathological attention to detail, so I feel comforted when I forget a few commas.

Tom is a pathological liar.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

How can anyone trust anything Tom says? He's a pathological liar.

Has anyone ever accused you of being a pathological liar?

Sami is a pathological liar.

He was a pathological liar.

Sami was a pathological liar.

I know that Tom is a pathological liar.

I know Tom is a pathological liar.

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But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.

Paul Canning's performance as Julian gives the character an emotional center that is not in the script: He is vulnerable without being pathological, needy without being pathetic.

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