malarious
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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People in malarious countries should fear malaria the way they fear HIV and cancer, but according to medical anthropologists, they don't.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2010
In a specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nothing like ague or any malarious disease exhausts his vitality or paralyzes his strength.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace
There are occasional regions of low, marshy ground, which are malarious at certain seasons, but the average country is salubrious, and capable of supporting a population of millions.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray
He had brought back more than a touch of that malarious fever which is the scourge of the island and a blight upon all efforts to develop its rich resources.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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