malady

Example Sentences

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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

Wheezy if, God forbid, the pop star has been stricken with a laryngeal malady?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2025

"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

We’ll explore how these factors work to deny access to drugs that address America’s No. 1 health malady.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos