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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Examples of malady in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web For Noé, medical care is a sign not so much of individual ill health but of a society-wide malady—of clinging to life for the sake of time rather than quality, of living more rather than living well. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022 Entwined today with Covid is the age-old mental malady called cabin fever. — The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022 The former Auburn standout played in only one game during the 2020 season because of a back injury and missed 11 regular-season and three playoff games in the 2021 campaign with the same malady. — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2022 Mental illness is a complex malady, not something to fan-theorize over. — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022 Weerasethakul develops a new choreography for the dance of love, the malady of love. — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 Her concerns are reasonable given the global malady. — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022 In March, Chinese President Xi Jinping called the tutoring industry a malady and vowed to revamp it. — Wenxin Fan, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022 So far, the roster assembled by General Manager Steve Keim and his staff has been able to compensate for any malady that’s come the Cardinals way. — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2021 See More

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