The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misadjustment \Mis`ad*just"ment\, n. Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Wiktionary
n. Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.
Usage examples of "misadjustment".
Pain is beneficial, because it lets us know that there is some misadjustment to our environment, and thereby warns us to remove or cease doing what is proving injurious.
The true meaning of hell is, a state of painful opposition to the will of God, misadjustment of personal constitution with universal order or the rightful conditions of being.
A malady that he could not understand of course, but a misadjustment that lay within a familiar framework and one that Man could cope with.
By a strange misadjustment, according to the Constitution, in those counties where the negro population so heavily preponderates, third grade teachers receive higher pay than first grade instructors in the counties where the white people are in excess.