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Maladjusted

adjective

Poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living.

Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships. Synonym: disturbed.

Not well adjusted.

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"Maladjusted" Quotes from Famous Books

... an abnormal family environment, whether that abnormality arises from the birth of the child or the maladjusted personality of a parent, is the type of child which may later seek compensation in irregular sexual behaviour. But the child who, during its early years, lives in an environment where it feels secure, loved, and accepted is not likely to become ...

— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.

... Murray's translation of the "Hippolytus." He had soon finished reading of "The Cyprian" and her revenge, and looked at the sky instead. And watching the white clouds so bright against the intense blue, Ashurst, on his silver-wedding day, longed for—he knew not what. Maladjusted to life—man's organism! One's mode of life might be high and scrupulous, but there was always an, undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste. Did women have it too? Who could tell? And yet, men who gave vent to their appetites for novelty, their riotous longings for new ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

Words linked to "Maladjusted" : adjusted, neurotic, unadjusted, psychology, psychological science, psychoneurotic, unadapted