How to Use dysfunctional in a Sentence

dysfunctional

adjective

• The Democrats just pandered to him and his dysfunctional ways.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
• As the dysfunctional pair sorta make up, Sarah, again, convinces Jamie to trust her.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• That was one of the reasons why the state of California was so dysfunctional.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• Don’t hold your breath for our dysfunctional Congress to act.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Their dysfunctional defense surrendered the NFL’s third-most yards and its sixth-most points in their first two games.
  — Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
• There are a few counties where voting has been dysfunctional for a long time, but this is not widespread.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
• And 2024 is set up to be another chaotic, dysfunctional and volatile year — if not more so.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• The United States and the rest of the world have seen the devastation and tragedy of dysfunctional migration systems.
  — Andrew Selee, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
• And sometimes years can go by before the most dysfunctional people take that help.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2023
• This is the story of Juno, a sharp-witted Irish girl in the 1980s who’s too defiant to find peace in her dysfunctional home or her brutal Catholic school.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Once the model franchise in MLS, the Galaxy had become a dysfunctional mess.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
• In Jane’s early years, their heroin use had fused them in creative and dysfunctional ways.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
• With most of his platelets preoccupied in dysfunctional clumps, the bleeding from his head wouldn’t stop.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• Congestion pricing hurts the middle class and poor and will not solve the MTA’s dysfunctional system.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• Fixing our dysfunctional food system as the planet warms will be very hard.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• Well, Don, you and I know Congress often is dysfunctional.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• And, over time, blocking your sweat ducts with metallic salts can risk causing your sweat glands to become dysfunctional, says Dr. Ren.
  — Rachael Schultz, Verywell Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• But there’s still a sense that this arm of the music industry is utterly dysfunctional — and that the DOJ’s case could be one big step toward fixing it.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Raiders, however, have been even more dysfunctional than the Bears in the last couple of decades, and their roster is in significantly worse shape.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
• Read on to find out where the dysfunctional duos stood after the latest installment.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• But the dysfunctional family drama ended in spring 2023, leaving the field open to succeed the Roys as best drama.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• This planted the seed of the idea to write a book about the dysfunctional relationship between humanity and forests.
  — Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
• If anything, this strike has laid bare just how dysfunctional this whole industry is.
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• Just because the House is completely dysfunctional now doesn’t put that funding on hold.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
• Litigation is the next step, and is not uncommon if the board is dysfunctional or if there is no money for repairs, Ms. Nadel said.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 22 July 2023
• So many of our cities have really dysfunctional public agencies across the board.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Instead, a doctor who blew the whistle on the dysfunctional hospital was fired.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• The dysfunctional responses in the face of these recurring quarrels can leave you feeling stuck on a hamster wheel.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Titled The Applebaum Curse, the series is being described as a one-hour drama about a dysfunctional family led by Danes.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 Feb. 2025
• Such naked ambition in the executive branch is also the result of a dysfunctional Congress, along with bad faith efforts to ignore the judiciary.
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Mar 2025