malady

noun

mal·a·dy ˈma-lə-dē

plural maladies

Synonyms of malady next

: a disease or disorder of the animal body

told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady—

Willa Cather

: an unwholesome or disordered condition

poverty, homelessness, and other social maladies

Examples of malady in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web Soon, doctors began trying it as a remedy for angina, hypertension and other cardiovascular maladies. —

Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023 Prescott can play quickly and efficiently, and perhaps his 2022 spate of turnovers was a malady stemming from attempting to do too much. —

Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023 The facility is a critical delivery point for ambulances transporting patients suffering strokes and other time-critical maladies. —

Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023 The Kenyan experimental musician’s new album Feeling Body charts her own experience of long COVID, a disease that some sufferers have struggled to convince medical professionals is a legitimate malady with tangible symptoms. —

Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023 That represented a five-month delay in progression - dismissed as negligible by some but hailed as a milestone by others for a malady that has been largely untreatable. —

Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023 Substandard housing led to the bite, and the instinct to remedy maladies at home because of inadequate access to dignified health care delayed Corem from seeing a doctor until the following day. —

Julia Craven, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023 Darby, 29, has his own long list of maladies, however. —

Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023 Julie Garwood, a romance novelist whose books — some set centuries ago, some sampling present-day maladies like computer hacking and Ponzi schemes — routinely landed on best-seller lists, died on June 8 at her home in Leawood, Kan., on the Missouri border. —

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 21 June 2023 See More

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