plural maladies
1
: a disease or disorder of the animal body
told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady—
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: an unwholesome or disordered condition
poverty, homelessness, and other social maladies
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Examples of malady in a Sentence
in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady
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Hunter-gatherers around the world eat diets with wildly different proportions of plant and animal foods, and all of them appear to be healthy, protected from heart disease, diabetes, and other maladies that are common in industrial populations.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
The downtown Oakland foreclosure suggests the post-coronavirus economic maladies that have infected the commercial property markets in the Bay Area have yet to run their course.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
The scalped lawn is the most common malady of the modern turfgrass environment, in both residential and commercial landscapes.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2024
Elena’s various health maladies have been a running joke in the series, but this week’s perimenopausal crisis doesn’t yield much comic fruit other than a few colorful descriptions of the heat.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
The downtown Oakland foreclosure suggests the post-coronavirus economic maladies that have infected the commercial property markets in the Bay Area have yet to run their course.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
The scalped lawn is the most common malady of the modern turfgrass environment, in both residential and commercial landscapes.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2024
Elena’s various health maladies have been a running joke in the series, but this week’s perimenopausal crisis doesn’t yield much comic fruit other than a few colorful descriptions of the heat.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
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“Malady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malady. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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