Sentence examples for was somewhat dysfunctional from inspiring English sources
I finished high school during a winter session and when fall came around I was a working journalist, my family was somewhat dysfunctional, and, at the time, not going to college was a legitimate choice.
The old violin family is somewhat dysfunctional.
Da Vinci didn't rank highest in my survey, but I suspect that is largely because it is small, not a frequent transfer point and people expect Italy to be somewhat dysfunctional.
At the moment, it would be fair to say that that relationship is somewhat dysfunctional – with patronising yet weak donors, and frequently unaccountable and often corrupt or inefficient recipients.
Nervous Device is less a collation of poems--let alone a coherent artistic vision--than a machine of many cobbled-together and imperfectly-interlocking parts (which are somewhat dysfunctional in consequence) whose originary parts-suppliers may never be tracked down or acknowledged.
The predominance of courts in the everyday American decision-making process, regardless of the level -- local, state or federal -- clearly shows that the "regular" process of legislating through Congress and effectively implementing policies through the bureaucracy and executive branch (something Europe and most of the developed world would deem "regular") is somewhat dysfunctional.
Its song was somewhat, somewhat erased.
The content of stress-reactive thoughts is consistent with hopelessness theory (Abramson et al. 1989), but is somewhat different from dysfunctional attitudes (Beck 1967) that may be focused on beliefs that their happiness depends on being perfect or others' approval (see Robinson and Alloy 2003).
That's pretty dysfunctional.
In a way, he said, it's "somewhat like working with a dysfunctional family member" in that the two will sometimes quarrel and disagree, but without worrying that a permanent rift will result.
