Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being badly adjusted; disagreement; lack of harmony.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

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  • noun Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.

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Examples

  • Pain is beneficial, because it lets us know that there is some misadjustment to our environment, and thereby warns us to remove or cease doing what is proving injurious.

    Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • By a strange misadjustment, according to the Constitution, in those counties where the negro population so heavily preponderates, third grade teachers receive higher pay than first grade instructors in the counties where the white people are in excess.

    A slaveholder's daughter, 1900

  • The true meaning of hell is, a state of painful opposition to the will of God, misadjustment of personal constitution with universal order or the rightful conditions of being.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

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