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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in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady
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Savvy promoters of abstinence, the WCTU had a broad reach and employed a variety of tactics to circulate their claims about the physical maladies and social harms caused by alcohol.
—Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
In Haiti, people often go directly to a hospital to receive care for all sorts of maladies, and county officials and advocacy groups said many of the immigrants were unfamiliar with the U.S. system of seeing primary care doctors first or making appointments for treatment.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Mental Illness in the Middle Ages In Europe in the Middle Ages, people often saw mental illness as a spiritual malady.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
Such images were tools of propaganda that romanticized the Caribbean as a utopia after decades of associating the region with savagery and malady.
—Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
In Haiti, people often go directly to a hospital to receive care for all sorts of maladies, and county officials and advocacy groups said many of the immigrants were unfamiliar with the U.S. system of seeing primary care doctors first or making appointments for treatment.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Mental Illness in the Middle Ages In Europe in the Middle Ages, people often saw mental illness as a spiritual malady.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
Such images were tools of propaganda that romanticized the Caribbean as a utopia after decades of associating the region with savagery and malady.
—Shameekia Shantel Johnson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Malady.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/malady. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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