malaise
noun
a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
malaises
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pluralof malaise.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For these two analysts, the key to overcoming the malaises of social alienation have nothing whatsoever to do with catching up, getting even with, or hating one’s enemies, adversaries, abusers, oppressors, and so on.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024
Rather, the key to overcoming the malaises of alienation is about changing the social conditions or epidemiology of this alienation and moving societies beyond common indignities, gross inequities, and identity politics.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024
But despite her placidity, Poplavskaya has leapfrogged to prominence in recent years, profiting from the malaises or caprices of others.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rarely, of course, did he draw the attention of the medical officers to his ever-fluctuating assortment of aches, pains, signs, symptoms, malaises, and malfunctions.
From Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett
