malaise
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Blown out, extravagant, dripping with ferocious malaise and desperation, but precisely arranged for the maximum possible emotional effect.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The coffee squeeze is emblematic of a broader malaise sweeping office life at American companies, which appear to be in a race to find inefficiencies and cut costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
What I most definitely had was malaise: The ring had issued a warning, but why?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Industrial stocks’ External link rising star has faltered, thanks to soaring oil prices, inflation fears, and a general malaise settling over the markets amid war in the Middle East.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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