malady
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By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
But said rescue also referenced a clinical-sounding malady known as "single kitten syndrome," a behavioral term that did not exist two decades ago.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024
"It's part of my make-up and I would have had the same malady had I been a taxi driver."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
Allen apparently also was responsible for opponents contracting a unique malady.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024
And it seemed to the tenders of the sick that on the Halfling and on the Lady of Rohan this malady lay heavily.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing malady
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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