social disease
Example Sentences
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William Osler, often described as the father of modern medicine, put it like this: “Tuberculosis is a social disease with a medical aspect.”
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
Chess pieces just sort of materialize throughout the night; one couple plays chess, then another, then another, catching on like a dance craze or a social disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
Antisemitism, like Anti-Arabism and racism, is a social disease that can be confronted only by us standing together, Syrian- and Israeli-sympathizing Americans alike.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
PC, though, is just the symptom of a more virulent social disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2016
Regularly constituted "social doctoring" for the prevention, even more than for the treatment of social disease as it manifests itself in family life, is surely called for.
From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin
