How to Use maladjusted in a Sentence

maladjusted

adjective

• Winton, the class clown and semi-pariah who fits the stereotype of the clingy, maladjusted product of a broken home.
  — Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
• An elderly man, adjusting to the recent death of his beloved wife, meets a brilliant yet maladjusted teenager in a cemetery.
  — The Know, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
• Life without either, the pair determine, has left Leonora morose, maladjusted and desperate to claw her way back to the road not taken.
  — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
• Nothing spoils a Sunday afternoon outside with the family quite like your youngest child being carried off by a horde of maladjusted howler monkeys.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Sep. 2025
• Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• For the blessedly unaware, gooning is when maladjusted young men consume immense, overstimulating amounts of pornography and masturbate for hours on end to reach some kind of transcendent release.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
• Tapping celebrity guests like A$AP Rocky and Tame Impala for an album of silky cosmic funk, Thundercat channels the id of the geeky, emotionally maladjusted loner.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026