Definition of malady
maladies
1 : a disease or disorder of the animal body told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady — Willa Cather
2 : 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
Recent Examples of malady from the Web
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Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin will open on Monday part of a state-of-the-art interventional radiology lab to help patients facing a variety of cancers, hypertension, vascular and liver conditions, plus other maladies.
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Advocates say the drug can ease the pain of cancer, muscle spasms, seizures and other serious maladies.
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That underscores a chronic malady of American nukes—
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Chisenhall, Jackson, Brandon Guyer and Abraham Almonte are all sidelined with various maladies.
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And everyone expects the drugs to cost more than those for common maladies, because companies have to recoup research and development investment and generate profits from a smaller customer base.
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Verde Media, a website catering to environmentally minded Americans that launched just two months ago, is already suffering from the same malady that has affected a number of other Net content companies in recent months.
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Origin and Etymology of malady
Middle English maladie, from Anglo-French, from malade sick, from Latin male habitus in bad condition
First Known Use: 13th century
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