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

The seventh episode, “They Wanna Have Fun,” plunks down loud hints that Michael Patrick King and his writers will soon be correcting the show’s Aidan affliction and possibly replacing it with a new malady.

From Salon • Jul. 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

In a survey of 722 working parents conducted in June and July 2023, 57% reported symptoms indicative of this modern-day malady.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

Because I had rid her heart of its gravest malady.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini