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Psychopath vs Screwball - What's the difference?

psychopath | screwball |

As nouns the difference between psychopath and screwball

is that psychopath is a person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses while screwball is a pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.

As an adjective screwball is

crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.

psychopath

English

(Psychopathy)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating]], glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, [[delusion of grandeur, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
  • A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
  • A person who has no moral conscience.
  • A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.

    • Synonyms

    * sociopath

    Derived terms

    * psychopathic * psychopathy

    Related terms

    * psycho * psychopathology * psychotic

    screwball

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
    • The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
  • (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
    • I will not listen to this screwball any longer.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
  • * 2013 , Tom Shone, Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?'' (in ''The Guardian , 11 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/11/oscar-nominations-surprise-taste]
    • Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook , an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.

    Derived terms

    * screwball comedy