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dysfunctional

Definition for dysfunctional

adjective as in socially impaired

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In the small world these characters inhabit, Mancuso was close to the brothers’ dysfunctional family back in Coney Island.

"I have a slightly dysfunctional immune system and am really susceptible to infections with big changes in life, or disruption to sleep and environmental stresses," said the 37-year-old.

From BBC

First and most important, the so-called Labour landslide of the July 2024 general election was an illusion, or at best an artifact of the U.K.’s increasingly dysfunctional electoral system.

From Salon

In a 2009 interview with the Guardian, he described his younger self as “a total hellion” and said he was “very dysfunctional at school.”

Let’s talk also about remaking our wildly dysfunctional government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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