dysfunctional
Example Sentences
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Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.
From Barron's
It wasn't the fact that they lost to Italy that caused such fury, it was the manner of it, the soft-touch defending, the dysfunctional set-piece, the wasted opportunities in attack.
From BBC
His death in 2021 split his real estate empire between his ex-wife and widow — an arrangement that residents say led to dysfunctional management.
From Los Angeles Times
Inertia is the easiest and most likely choice in any polity, and sometimes not even a crisis is enough to dislodge a dysfunctional status quo.
They selected him at third overall in the 2018 draft, and Darnold not only arrived in a dysfunctional organization, he was also abnormally young on draft day at just 20 years old.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
