disturbed

disturbed
   1. naughty or ill-disciplined
   Sociological jargon which does not imply that the miscreants have been interrupted in their activities:
    Boys and girls who steal or vandalize, or wet the bed, or are found by their teachers or doctors disturbed... (Bradbury, 1976)
   2. mentally abnormal
   Medical jargon, with an implication that the condition is akin to unease:
    He had stopped looking for the hospital... 'Are you disturbed?' went on the lunatic. (Amis, 1978 — the lunatic was using the jargon used by others of himself)

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