Dysfunctional

"Dysfunctional" in a Sentence (14 examples)

It took Tom years to work through all the issues caused by his growing up in a dysfunctional family.

All families are, to a greater or lesser extent, dysfunctional.

It's hard to imagine a family more dysfunctional than ours.

Tom and Mary both come from dysfunctional families.

She said that her family was dysfunctional.

When Congress is dysfunctional, we should draw our congressional districts to encourage politicians to cater to common sense and not rigid extremes.

Tom grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Sami had a dysfunctional relationship with his mother.

Tom and I both come from dysfunctional families.

Both Tom and I come from dysfunctional families.

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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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