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noun

a venereal disease.

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Origin of social disease

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby social disease

social democrat, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Social Democratic Party, Social Democratic Workingmen's party, social differentiation, social disease, social disorganization, social distance, social distancing, social drinker, social dumping

How to use social disease in a sentence

And so far no psychopharmacologist or 12-step program has figured out a cure for that profoundly destructive social disease.
Are Men Crazy?|Leslie Bennetts|September 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Besides this severer type of social disease, there is what has been called sometimes a milder form.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease.
The Pivot of Civilization|Margaret Sanger
Owen's diagnosis of the social disease explains Southey's partiality.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen

It is really not to be wondered at if sexual debauchery, artificially stimulated, gradually becomes a social disease.
Woman and Socialism|August Bebel
Criticism is the knife that cuts to the roots of social disease, and through the infliction of temporary pain effects a cure.
Society|Henry Kalloch Rowe

social disease

Origin of social disease

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