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

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

Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos