Sentence examples for Maladaptation from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being poorly adapted to an environment
It's more like maladaptation than P.T.S.D. The narrator of the story grew up in a "shabby little city" in the Rust Belt and escaped to rural Montana — which was also, in part, your own trajectory.
His maladaptation to fame was further compounded by a recent interview in which Lil Wayne claimed to have never experienced racism, adding that the Black Lives Matter movement was a "wave [that] just went right by me".
In Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit," a shrewd entrepreneur constantly condescends to his inventor friend by stressing what it pleases him to see as his friend's pathetically impractical maladaptation to life.
Bowen has produced a mapping of the adaptations – and maladaptations – that various forms of institutional Islam have made to British society, and their continuing closeness to the societies and histories from which the original immigrants came.
If so, this primordial instinct joins a lengthening list of maladaptations to modern life.
Go ahead and snicker, although by last Saturday's opening of the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, drawing more than 70 million visitors over its six-month run, these and other uniquely Chinese maladaptations of the English language were supposed to have been largely excised.
[Mach 1910: 30-31] Dinturbancenvironmentsnments cause maladaptations; progressive adaptation only has meaning in reference to that which is stable.
