dysfunctional

Definitions

1. Not performing its proper or intended function.
2. Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

Equivalents

Examples

“Live⟳ dysfunctional, likely die⟳ dysfunctional; live⟳ eufunctional, likely die⟳ eufunctional.”

“Never trust⟳ in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.”

“A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”.”

“It is difficult to find⟳ the right words for what has happened in the five years since the May 2018 timetable changes exposed the very dysfunctional nature of the franchise system set⟳ up by the privatisation process⟳ of the 1990s.”

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