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What the experts missed (or ignored) and parents did not was a near future in which the academic performance among a generation of students fell off a cliff — a condition compounded by a widespread crisis of psychological maladjustment in young people.
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
Some people have made news for their tremendously bad and rude behavior in public spaces, which signals a kind of sad maladjustment to living with other people.
—Tess Taylor, CNN, 3 June 2021
The results showed once again that early academic acceleration did not predict later maladjustment.
—Susan Pinker, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020
Those include a dangerous maladjustment of mechanisms for maintaining international security and stability, regional crises, the creeping threat of terrorism and transnational crime.
—Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 16 July 2018
Waller-Bridge is concerned with a particularly feminine kind of maladjustment.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
But their maladjustment puts students under the immediate threat of gunfire and continues desensitizing them to injustice.
—Andre Perry, The Root, 9 May 2017
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
Some people have made news for their tremendously bad and rude behavior in public spaces, which signals a kind of sad maladjustment to living with other people.
—Tess Taylor, CNN, 3 June 2021
The results showed once again that early academic acceleration did not predict later maladjustment.
—Susan Pinker, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020
Those include a dangerous maladjustment of mechanisms for maintaining international security and stability, regional crises, the creeping threat of terrorism and transnational crime.
—Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 16 July 2018
Waller-Bridge is concerned with a particularly feminine kind of maladjustment.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
But their maladjustment puts students under the immediate threat of gunfire and continues desensitizing them to injustice.
—Andre Perry, The Root, 9 May 2017
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“Maladjustment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maladjustment. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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maladjustment
noun
mal·ad·just·ment
ˌmal-ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt 
: poor or faulty adjustment
Medical Definition
maladjustment
noun
mal·ad·just·ment
ˌmal-ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt
: poor, faulty, or inadequate adjustment
especially
: failure to reach a satisfactory adjustment between one's desires and the conditions of one's life
emotional maladjustments
symptoms of maladjustment … in early childhood —Psychological Abstracts
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