dismembered

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“The educational environment has become so distempered that, in many cases, parents are now looking elsewhere,” Mr. Whalen said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2017

If you even begin to understand why this picture caused offense, you are either from the U.K. or have spent more than the occasional vacation in its temperate, if increasingly distempered, climes.

From Time • Nov. 21, 2014

Like so much of this is clearly Orwell's recasting of his own distempered 1948 into a dystopian future.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2013

In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now distempered as he was, he yielded no solids.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson