What is "dysfunctional"

Usage examples of "dysfunctional".

It will pass, for the cyberculture is given to wild enthusiasms that, for all that they can be extraordinarily dysfunctional, are only temporary.

They rhapsodize that his amazing vignettes of dysfunctional families make him the Raymond Carver of hip-hop.

Barjo is a borderline dysfunctional thirtyish man convinced that the world is coming to an end, an innocent whacko who nourishes himself by sniffing a plastic bag full of milk bottle caps as though they were oxygen.

Eventually, he had fought in court to help her get a divorce, telling the judge that it had been her dysfunctional relationship with her overbearing husband that had caused all her problems in the first place.

Even after all these years, Megan still thought a dysfunctional mother was better than no mother at all.

A woman gave birth to them and moulded them into what they are: dysfunctional, maladaptive, emotionally dead.

But in doing so, he had to make himself dangerously visible, although he realized that for one living on forged identity papers and lacking the protection of formal nationality, it was perilous to irritate bureaucrats who thrive on the dysfunctional status quo.

Intellectual property - patents, content libraries, copyrighted material, trademarks, rights of all kinds - are sometimes the sole assets - and the only hope for survival - of cash-strapped and otherwise dysfunctional or bankrupt firms.

The great concern with addictions in the last 15-20 years has resulted in a new body of literature about the dysfunctional family, toxic parents, the inner child, codependency, adult children of alcoholics, support groups, etc.

If we focus on them as individuals, we find most were brought up in dysfunctional homes, by commie parents, and attended commie camps in the summer.

Examples: getting state aid for having a child, escaping a dysfunctional family of origin by getting pregnant, trying to find someone to love by having a baby, knowing a happily married teenager but knowing little about the difficult experiences of an unwanted pregnancy, believing birth control is racial genocide, assuming that all a woman can do is raise babies, assuming your buddies can tell you everything you need to know about sex and contraception, having intercourse for months before going to a birth control clinic, being unable to talk with our partner about sex and birth control, having little interaction with our parents about sex, assuming wrongly that you aren't going to have sex so there is no need to prepare, having low self-esteem and low self-control, overlooking the pleasures and gratitude of your partner when you use contraceptives, etc.

The psychological, interpersonal, environmental causes, like poverty, prejudice, and dysfunctional families, are considered less important (Albee, 1996).

On top of everything, only two weeks to go until birthday, when will have to face up to the fact that another entire year has gone by, during which everyone else except me has mutated into Smug Married, having children plop, plop, plop, left right and centre and making hundreds of thousands of pounds and inroads into very hub of establishment, while I career rudderless and, boyfriendless through dysfunctional relationships and professional stagnation.

But not Bretan Braith, young and not high at all, who clung to traditions that men generations older than himself had already discarded as dysfunctional.

He might also be called the poet of the dysfunctional family, the abandoned child, and the sins of the father bearing fruit in later generations.