malady
Example Sentences
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Anxiety paralysis is real, and people who procrastinate often are not lazy, but instead suffer from this all-too-common malady.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
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
O’Sullivan, who quickly ruled out epilepsy, came to suspect the young woman was actually suffering from another common malady: overdiagnosis.
From Salon • May 13, 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
Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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