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Example sentences for: dysfunctional

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They are like a giant dysfunctional family that looks like it is going to blow apart at any moment--this always tricks rivals--who then go into the back room and come out as one solid force.
Jack Horner's entourage is explicitly presented as a dysfunctional makeshift family: Besides father Jack and sister Rollergirl, Dirk finds a mother figure in the porn actress Amber Waves (Julianne Moore, who does a good job of looking beautiful in one scene and puffy in the next), and a brother in the ugly, dumb, good-natured hack actor Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly).
Actor Gary Oldman's directorial debut about a dysfunctional South London family is praised for avoiding the moralizing mawkishness of the typical British working-class drama.
"Most people are recovering from something," he explained to the Washington Post . Barry won back the mayor's office by embracing his own dysfunctions--but Washington is a dysfunctional city.
I think that a major part of the explanation lies in the development of economic theory over the past couple of decades and a somewhat dysfunctional response of the profession to those developments.