How to Use dysfunctional in a Sentence

dysfunctional

adjective

• Her dysfunctional parents are not coping with their impending loss well.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
• Kimberly’s flagrantly dysfunctional parents are only too present in the show.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• The Democrats just pandered to him and his dysfunctional ways.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When a freak snowstorm traps the dysfunctional family together in their hometown, they are forced to confront events from a decade ago that tore them all apart.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• The film is set amidst a dysfunctional Punjabi family in the pressure cooker life of a terraced suburban home in Slough.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• On the flip side, a team that is dysfunctional can drag down morale and efficiency, creating internal problems that take away from the work at hand.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
• Susan Griffin is well-known in San Diego for addressing the needs of children caught in the middle of dysfunctional families.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Which series will give us the next big, dysfunctional family?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024