Pakistan is a dysfunctional state, certainly compared to India and even Bangladesh.

At the moment Iraqis have a dysfunctional and powerless state.

To some the situation resembles the dysfunctional state of another sport with multiple champions.

Kansans are described as "deranged" and "lunatic," people who live in a "dysfunctional" state.

"I think it's a very sorry legal system in a total dysfunctional state," Ms. Jehangir said.

We just had to get out of the dysfunctional state that we were in.

Terrorist groups like Al Qaeda operate outside the control of any functioning government and feed off dysfunctional states.

An oil state is, almost by definition, a dysfunctional state.

Burundi and Rwanda are dysfunctional states created by old colonial borders.

Rachel, however, tells him that she does not mind their relationship in its patently dysfunctional state.