malady
any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit.
Origin of malady
1Other words for malady
Words that may be confused with malady
- malady , melody
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How to use malady in a sentence
These two maladies that he makes fun of, millions of people, millions of people are affected by these diseases.
Harry Reid Unloads on Bob Gates for Insensitivity and Breaking Confidentiality | John L. Smith | January 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese two maladies that he makes fun of, millions of people, millions of people are effected by these diseases.
Reid: Gates ‘Unethically’ Gossiped and Published Memoir to ‘Make Money’ | John L. Smith | January 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch awful outcomes for Medicaid patients are found in a variety of studies looking at cancer, heart problems, and other maladies.
Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Hemingway Award.
The first step toward getting out of this mess is to understand just how many of our psychiatric maladies are pure fictions.
Mais il s'en estoit retir, -cause de quelque mortalit l survenu par des maladies dysenteriaques.
Cette anne il a couru par dela plusieurs maladies de dysenteries, qui ont est mortelles ceux qui en estoient attaints.
Mais particulierement encore l'exemption de maladies, qui est vn miracle tres-evident.
At length a complication of maladies completed the ruin of all his faculties.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayOf all maladies the human frame is subject to, the vain old creature most dreaded that one.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood
British Dictionary definitions for malady
/ (ˈmælədɪ) /
any disease or illness
any unhealthy, morbid, or desperate condition: a malady of the spirit
Origin of malady
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