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dysfunctional

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1. dysfunctional - Adjective

2. dysfunctional - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

(of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose

impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ

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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' Jeff Foxworthy

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts. Mike Tyson

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. Ann Macbeth

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. Al Gore

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Carl Bernstein

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