The malady is marked by nasty kicks, retaliatory shoves, hard words and worse.He determined not to yield to the malady, striding about the deck all night, refusing to give in.It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.

Public health could not be restricted to the surveillance and prevention of specific maladies.illness, sickness, affliction, complaint, ailment, indisposition. any undesirable or disordered condition social maladies a malady of the spirit SYNONYMS 1. It is customary to use the word disease in a medical. any disorder or disease of the body, esp. Malady is a term that is not used very often and it does not have a specific denotation: the other three terms do. Later, looking back, I wondered if for a brief hour my malady had blanketed me from consciousness of the present. The English language has the luxury of having four different words that describe deficient health states: disease, illness, sickness, and malady.The airline suffers from a common malady - lack of cash.Her chronic malady, the result of a golf injury, has provided its share of good fortune, however.Some doctors still regard menopause as a malady.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Illness & disability malady mal‧a‧dy / ˈmælədi / noun ( plural maladies ) 1 formal PROBLEM a serious problem in society 2 old use MI an illness Examples from the Corpus malady

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