plural maladies
1
: a disease or disorder of the animal body
told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady—
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: an unwholesome or disordered condition
poverty, homelessness, and other social maladies
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Examples of malady in a Sentence
in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady
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In July 2022, the Minnesota Department of Health was flagged that a 29-year-old man had been hospitalized multiple times over a two-and-a-half-week period with symptoms including fever, severe muscle soreness, swelling around the eyes, and other various maladies.
—Eric Henderson, CBS News, 24 May 2024
Yet the foreclosure might ultimately help reduce the maladies that afflict the ailing office sector — by taking a big building out of the inventory of vacant office space and converting it to housing.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
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Eric Henderson, CBS News, 24 May 2024
Yet the foreclosure might ultimately help reduce the maladies that afflict the ailing office sector — by taking a big building out of the inventory of vacant office space and converting it to housing.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
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“Malady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malady. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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