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Recent Examples of maladjusted
So what lies ahead for the most maladjusted characters in the entire TGIT lineup?
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2019
The maladjusted lothario also has many a dalliance with a particular strain of misogyny: the cutting and manipulative digs at past lovers that some of the rapper’s fans rush to freebase.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
What kind of maladjusted narcissist thinks being credited with a $3.1 billion fortune is unfair?
—Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Oct. 2017
Brie Larson plays the adult Jeannette and does a compelling job in conveying a woman torn between her disturbing, maladjusted childhood and her independent life as a successful magazine writer in New York City.
—Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2017
She has been dinged up a few times: a red chest from a maladjusted pack and a thorn in her foot pad.
—Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
Alongside the traditional sheet music and socially maladjusted students are electronic keyboards, mixing software, and MIDI files.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2004
Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2019
The maladjusted lothario also has many a dalliance with a particular strain of misogyny: the cutting and manipulative digs at past lovers that some of the rapper’s fans rush to freebase.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
What kind of maladjusted narcissist thinks being credited with a $3.1 billion fortune is unfair?
—Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Oct. 2017
Brie Larson plays the adult Jeannette and does a compelling job in conveying a woman torn between her disturbing, maladjusted childhood and her independent life as a successful magazine writer in New York City.
—Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2017
She has been dinged up a few times: a red chest from a maladjusted pack and a thorn in her foot pad.
—Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
Alongside the traditional sheet music and socially maladjusted students are electronic keyboards, mixing software, and MIDI files.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2004
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maladjusted
Adjective
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The unbalanced nature of the 2025 Guidelines, compared to the 2016 Guidance statement, might dissuade employers from considering some contracts that could enhance employment opportunities.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The 2024 election of Donald J. Trump is a choose-your-own-adventure of misery for our unbalanced elites.—
Grace Curley,
Boston Herald,
13 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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After Cornell's burial on the farm, a disturbed Dr. Wilbur revealed to Durfee what Cornell had told him: Avery had assaulted her at a camp meeting that August.—
Melissa Gray,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2025
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Many clients are anxious and disturbed, not only because relatives’ flights have been canceled, but because of other actions the administration has already taken to clamp down on immigration.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the courtside footage, the mom — who was holding one child’s hand and had another kid on her hip — becomes visibly upset, stepping forward and moving very close to the principal.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Notre Dame must either score on defense or special teams to pull off the upset or at least set up Leonard with a short field.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The climax is a horrendous German burning of a village, as striking for its visual imagery as for its agitated music.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The inaugural film in The Conjuring franchise understands that seasoned viewers of haunted-house films know what signs to look for by now: cold spots, agitated pets, clocks that stop ticking.—
Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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His makeshift solution is a thankless job helping an art critic (a gloriously unhinged Tilda Swinton) assemble the works of her cryogenically frozen husband (RZA).—
Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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In Danny Boyle’s marvelously unhinged 1997 lovers-on-the-lam confection A Life Less Ordinary, Diaz plays Celine, an heiress who’s kidnapped by a hapless janitor, Ewan McGregor’s Robert.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Maladjusted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maladjusted. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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