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maladjusted

adjective as in maladapted

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The school was set up in 1966 for "maladjusted" boys - those regarded as troublemakers who, very often, had difficult home lives.

From BBC

From the Western perspective, East Asians might appear excessively polite in their attention to social ties or could seem disengaged or even depressed or maladjusted in their ambivalence toward self-promotion and initiative.

Amer rounds out details drawn from interviews with Boulahcen’s family and friends with her own psychological coloring, striving to give shape to the inner life of a maladjusted immigrant.

They need voters to be maladjusted miscreants, the kind of people who think that someone like Trump or Tucker Carlson is worth following.

From Salon

I’m a big believer in the power of reading, but there are some people who are so maladjusted that not even great literature can help them.

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

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