Sentence examples for misfunction from inspiring English sources

Presumably, for a device to misrepresent what it is about is for it to misfunction.

But unless the device had some function, it could simply not misfunction.

True, like sense-perceptions, they can misfunction under non-standard circumstances.

Large majorities in most countries reckon Mr Bush's re-election was bad for international peace (82% in Turkey, for instance, in the Maryland survey).America's "public diplomacy"—the bit designed to appeal to ordinary people abroad, as opposed to the formal diplomacy aimed at governments—is "crippled", "misfunctioning" or plain "missing".

Most so-called cancer genes are actually misfunctioning versions of genes that have evolved specifically to stop cancers from forming.Such knowledge will be medically useful even when the human genome is completed.