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

Wheezy if, God forbid, the pop star has been stricken with a laryngeal malady?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 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

The new study builds upon his lab's discovery and validation of free-water imaging as a reliable, noninvasive biomarker for another neurodegenerative malady, Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 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