social disease

Example Sentences

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Until recently, it was considered a social disease and was illegal except in limited circumstances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

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

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

I wanted to help make a point together with all my fellow Argentines that misogyny is a social disease and that we are ready to fight to erradicate it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2016

The immediate peril was over; but another symptom had appeared of the social disease which would soon end in death unless some remedy could be found.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony