dysfunctional

CEFRC1

/dɪˈsfʌŋkʃənəl/

adjective

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In plain English

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adjective
Not working normally or effectively.
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adjective
Extra detail
Functioning incorrectly or abnormally; especially, designating of a business, family or social group with harmful, aberrant, strange or abnormal behavior.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Live dysfunctional, likely die dysfunctional; live eufunctional, likely die eufunctional.
Never trust in the partly unscrupulous and partly dysfunctional state apparatus.
A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”.

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A former chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces said that Netanyahu should “resign now”, while a former intelligence official described the government as “dysfunctional”.
2023 October 22, Ruth Michaelson, “Netanyahu told to ‘quit now’ as ex-leaders pin blame on dysfunctional government”, in The Observer, →ISSN
It is difficult to find the right words for what has happened in the five years since the May 2018 timetable changes exposed the very dysfunctional nature of the franchise system set up by the privatisation process of the 1990s.
2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34

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From dysfunction + -al.