Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Poorly adjusted.
- adjective Inadequately adjusted to the demands or stresses of daily living.
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- adjective Badly adjusted to the demands and stresses of daily living;
unable tocope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not well adjusted
- adjective poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living
- adjective emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
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Examples
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Along with good jobs and an extensive system of social services, loving wives and mothers facilitated the process of rehabilitating bitter and "maladjusted" veterans who might otherwise destabilize American society and politics. 51
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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For those of you who are so petty to throw everyone else under the buss because of your maladjusted attitudes, walking down the street with your head not your hat turned backwards would lose it all because of your own ignorance!
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I felt called to do what I call ‘get in the way,’ to be maladjusted.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Conventionalizing maladjusted behavior may be good for ratings but the downside is the impact it has on the rest of us who have to endure the verbal abuse from a parent or derisive remarks from a girlfriend or bullying at school or the office.
Vanessa Carmichael: Reality Women Vanessa Carmichael 2011
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I felt called to do what I call “get in the way,” to be maladjusted.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Indeed if the world knows no justice, we're better off staying maladjusted.
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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Indeed if the world knows no justice, we're better off staying maladjusted.
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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For those of you who are so petty to throw everyone else under the buss because of your maladjusted attitudes, walking down the street with your head not your hat turned backwards would lose it all because of your own ignorance!
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Indeed if the world knows no justice, we're better off staying maladjusted.
Jon Foreman: Vice Verses: Making Art Out of Tension Jon Foreman 2011
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Taggers are sociopathic maladjusted, angry misfits who need attantion a the cost of whatever they destroy.
South African Reverse Graffiti Artists Tag Up Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean | Inhabitat 2010
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