malady

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mal·a·dy | \ ˈma-lə-dē

plural maladies

Definition of malady

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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in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady

Recent Examples on the Web Hoarding disorder is a serious malady with underlying contributing factors, and your wife needs professional treatment and lots of patience from you. — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, "Ask Amy: Husband feels buried by wife's hoarding," 26 Mar. 2021 Hoarding disorder is a serious malady with underlying contributing factors, and your wife needs professional treatment and lots of patience from you. — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Ask Amy: Wife’s hoarding may bury the family," 28 Mar. 2021 Hoarding disorder is a serious malady with underlying contributing factors, and your wife needs professional treatment and lots of patience from you. — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, "Ask Amy: Wife’s hoarding disorder may bury the family," 28 Mar. 2021 The moral and existential danger of tiredness is a widespread modern malady, but an unusual literary subject. — New York Times, "Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art," 25 Mar. 2021 Alexander Radulov was out with a lower-body injury, just days after missing 15 games with a lower-body malady. — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, "Next man up: Stars earn badly needed points vs. Detroit despite the absences of multiple key players," 20 Mar. 2021 Eric Paschall has lost his feel around the basket — perhaps a passing malady, but a source of concern right now. — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, "Warriors reportedly interested in Blake Griffin. Does that make sense to anyone?," 6 Mar. 2021 Though Porter’s nystagmus seemed to match this centuries-old malady, Kaski said the historical insight did not give him any idea of how to treat her condition. — Rebecca Sohn, STAT, "With chronic migraines, she avoided light for 18 months — and developed a condition from centuries past," 22 Feb. 2021 Information about a man who was treated for the same malady was released in January. — Aj Willingham, CNN, "2020 was the year of scary bugs, and 2021 will be even worse," 30 Dec. 2020

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