social disease

noun

1. a venereal disease.

Word History and Origins

Origin of social disease¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

And so far no psychopharmacologist or 12-step program has figured out a cure for that profoundly destructive social disease.

From The Daily Beast

Besides this severer type of social disease, there is what has been called sometimes a milder form.

From Project Gutenberg

Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease.

From Project Gutenberg

Owen's diagnosis of the social disease explains Southey's partiality.

From Project Gutenberg

It is really not to be wondered at if sexual debauchery, artificially stimulated, gradually becomes a social disease.

From Project Gutenberg

Criticism is the knife that cuts to the roots of social disease, and through the infliction of temporary pain effects a cure.

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