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Meanings of maladjusted in English

Poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living.

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Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships.

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Examples for "adjusted"
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Work capacity adjusted for body weight was higher in low income children.
Pubmed
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He said mainland China revenue grew 6 percent in adjusted currency terms.
Reuters
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The mean number of quality-adjusted life years gained was 1 per patient.
Pubmed
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Analyses were adjusted for maternal education level, year of birth, and parity.
Pubmed
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To address health resource use implications, we compared costs and quality-adjusted survival.
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Usage of maladjusted in English
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Cage shared the pain of the 'maladjusted' company as it disintegrated.
Begin again: a biography of john cage
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Is online education for school children progressive or a recipe for maladjusted adults?
Radio NZ
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Results: The maladjusted group used immature defenses more frequently than the control group did.
Pubmed
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It all does tend to sound pretty maladjusted, doesn't it?
Revolutionary Road
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Some time later she got a job in Arizona at a school for maladjusted children.
The new yorker
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Parents and teachers each rated the anxiety-disordered children as significantly more socially maladjusted than controls.
Pubmed
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No getting out of it-a maladjusted animal, civilised man!
Five Tales
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In political debate, Gingrich often displays the qualities of a clever, if slightly maladjusted, teen-age boy.
The new yorker
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Results: Participants exhibited significant improvements in depression, anxiety, and maladjusted cognitive bias and reductions in self-stigma.
Pubmed
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We wonder where this maladjusted man can traval, what interesting work he can find to do.
The new yorker
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The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways.
The Guardian
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The mad glint in his eyes is likely to be nothing more ominous than maladjusted contact lenses.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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Nicky is similarly maladjusted, a self-loathing sadsack with more than a hint of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.
The Guardian
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They enthused about what a positive influence this would have on the poor maladjusted boys and girls.
The preacher
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With her varied and intense training, Marie considered herself more than a match for this maladjusted Tleilaxu creation.
Paul of dune
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In the meantime, I've been in Casa de Saúde Dr Eiras, where I was admitted for being maladjusted.
A warrior's life: a biography of paulo coelho
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