dysfunctional
Example Sentences
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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.
In both cases, cartilage that had become thin and dysfunctional with age thickened across the joint surface.
From Science Daily
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