social disease
Example Sentences
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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
Chess pieces just sort of materialize throughout the night; one couple plays chess, then another, then another, catching on like a dance craze or a social disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
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
They are not incurable evils, they demand a remedy, and they furnish an inspiring object of study for the practitioner of social disease.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch
