malady
any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit.
Origin of malady
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How to use malady in a sentence
But as one deadly malady loses steam, another may be exploding: hunger.
Some places (like Syria) are prone to this malady, and others (like America) are not.
Nobody would hold up the single outpost of Moo Cluck Moo as a cure for the malady of low wages.
A Fast-Food Joint Thrives, Even by Paying $12 an Hour | Daniel Gross | August 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCystic Fibrosis, a genetic malady, dooms its sufferers to a short and burdened life.
But the burnout described in this and so many other articles is not really a malady.
Study Says Doctors More Burned Out Than Others, But It’s Not Really a Malady | Kent Sepkowitz | August 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Rheumatism was the one malady that sometimes affected mother Martha's health.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondIn all of these the clinical facts, as well as the progress of the malady, were carefully studied and recorded.
A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy | Alexander Hughes BennettHe as well as Brisset was called in consultation regarding a very serious malady afflicting Raphael de Valentin.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheAll this time, however, his malady was gaining ground; he slept badly, and his appetite failed him.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland"But I do not observe any symptoms of that malady developing themselves at present," added the doctor.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood
British Dictionary definitions for malady
/ (ˈmælədɪ) /
any disease or illness
any unhealthy, morbid, or desperate condition: a malady of the spirit
Origin of malady
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