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How to use malady in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Malady means any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder. Example: “The malady left my body as a pitying of doves as I slept.”

More sentences with malady

  • The malady left my body as a pitying of doves as I slept.1963, Lynn Crosbie, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Toronto, Ontario: House of Anansi Press. From the entry pitying
  • The diagnosis of Kit's malady was soon verified, and Fleur went into purdah.1928 July, John Galsworthy, “Measles”, in Swan Song, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 143. From the entry purdah
  • There is a psychological malady in kimonas—they make folks lax, lazy, and largesome!1916, Motion Picture Classic - Volume 2, Issues 1-6. From the entry largesome
  • At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady.2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V2: An Advanced Treatise, page 553. From the entry foulbrood
  • A malady that was rare, but which because of its peculiarity elicited much comment, was "night blindness" or "gravel."1943, Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255. From the entry gravel
  • The process began 50 years ago when Europe’s elms were ravaged by the beetle-borne fungal malady misnamed ʻDutch elm diseaseʼ (which, in fact, is Asian).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry Dutch elm disease
  • Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind. From the entry bodig
  • And he tries stout-heartedly to explain away Lorenzo Clark's anti-Semitic jibes and mean tricks by pretending that the black is half-crazed by his terminal malady.1982, Ellen Schiff, From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry stout-heartedly
  • The osteopaths have helped many of these patients, since the nature of the malady has been forgotten by most doctors of the scientific era.1913, Lewellyn F. Barker, Smith Ely Jelliffe, “XVIII: Neuroses”, in Frank Billings, editor, Forchheimer's Therapeusis of Internal…. From the entry rerecognition
  • By now, you have no doubt heard of "Zoom fatigue," the range of maladies, including exhaustion and headaches, that are associated with hours and hours of virtual meetings.2022 July 14, Arthur C. Brooks, “The Trouble With Zooming Forever”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Zoom fatigue
  • During the Second Epoch, Tombilly, Chief of Ban Rona in the Green Hollows, fell ill to a malady for which the medicians of the Hollows could find no cure.2008, Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. From the entry medician
  • The idea of excusing the self-killer by attributing to him the fictitious malady called "insanity" was invented as a tactic for the merciful treatment of his survivors.2002, Thomas Szasz, Fatal Freedom, page 43. From the entry self-killer
  • Tickeritis is a malady that causes a man to stand and look at a lot of ever-changing figures over which he cannot hope to have the least control.1916 January, “Tickeritis”, in The Silent Partner, volume 11, page 79. From the entry tickeritis
  • The above-mentioned letters are enough proof to show even to those afflicted with that peculiar malady known as Hinduphobia that the Sikhs in Canada have made good.1915, A Hindu-Canadian, India's appeal to Canada or an account of Hindu immigration to the Dominion, Victoria, British Columbia: India…. From the entry Hinduphobia
  • What more pitiable palsy on the attempt to make the world grow better at the point where its most subtle malady of unprogress lies could be imagined?1912, The Unitarian Advance, volume 3, page 132. From the entry unprogress
  • Tickeritis is quicker and more deadly in its action than that old malady, Consignment Fever, but both are exceedingly painful to the victim as well as his sorrowing friends.1905 May 3, “Editorial”, in The Weekly Northwestern Miller, volume 62, page 263. From the entry tickeritis

Meaning of malady

  1. noun Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
  2. noun A moral or mental defect or disorder.

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Questions about malady in a sentence

How do you use malady in a sentence?
Malady is used as a noun. For example: “The malady left my body as a pitying of doves as I slept.”
What is a short sentence with malady?
“The diagnosis of Kit's malady was soon verified, and Fleur went into purdah.”
What does malady mean?
Malady means any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

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