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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or suffering from dysphasia.

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Examples

  • Language dysfunction is known as dysphasic language dysfunction.

    latimes.com - News 2011

  • Co-written by the Cribs 'Ryan Jarman, "What Is My Role" is a dysphasic existentialist keeper.

    Edwyn Collins 2010

  • It only took a second for my tongue to say it, but hours to reflect on the implications of my dysphasic faux pas.

    Proto-Semitic as a second language 2008

  • It only took a second for my tongue to say it, but hours to reflect on the implications of my dysphasic faux pas.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Consider the Bush brand of big-government, worse-than-nanny-state, fiscally-catastrophic, corrupt, sexually dysphasic, follow-the-fuhrer conservativism which has so lately begun to become unfashionable in Washington thank the FSM, ra-men!

    Bloom County on the endangered liberal « raincoaster 2006

  • Was he really dysphasic in his final years, or does that diagnosis cloak a more sinister reality?

    Barricade acquires ‘Gagged’ 2004

  • A symptom of migraine aura is "dysphasic language dysfunction," in which people know what they want to say but they can't get the words out.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • The severe affliction suffered by so many of Herzog's characters-the dysphasic Kasper Hauser, utterly deprived of human contact for the majority of his life; the god-fearing, paranoid-schizophrenic Woyzeck; the traumatized prisoner of war, Dieter Dengler-is always presented as a means by which these characters achieve what Herzog calls "a radical human dignity."

    VQR 2009

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