social disease

Example Sentences

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You would think that after this last year we'd would have learned a lot more about addressing pandemics, epidemics or merely widespread, continuing social disease.

From Salon

I have lived in detention and soft detention, placed under surveillance, watched and followed like a social disease in China.

From Los Angeles Times

Such parenting is a transmissible social disease: People often parent as they were parented.

From Washington Post

Men preferring pornography and video games to unwanted pregnancies and catching and spreading social diseases is unwholesome?

From New York Times

Prejudiced attitudes of all kinds need to be recognized and called out — but as symptoms of a social disease, not as a tool for marginalizing those who are believed to possess them.

From Salon