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How to use malaise in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Malaise means a feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness. Example: “The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.”

Examples of malaise by meaning

nounA feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

  • Volkswagen’s travails are symbolic of the nation’s overall economic malaise and a political crisis that collapsed the government in December, paving the way for early elections Feb. 23.2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor
  • It also became synonymous with a lack of respect for passengers, a disregard for planning in stations, and a general malaise in the rail industry.2025 November 12, Tom Edwards, “Tackling the 'Euston Rush'”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 32

More sentences with malaise

  • The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.From the entry postcoital
  • These films . . . are evidence of a deep cultural malaise.1993 December 1, Brian Appleyard, “Censorship is a dirty word, but unrelentingly violent films have made it a necessary evil”, in The…. From the entry sickness unto death
  • Clinical signs include pyrexia, malaise, kinesalgia, opsoclonus, ataxia, and myoclonic encephalopathy.1987, Alvin H. Felman, Mervyn D. Cohen, Radiology of the pediatric chest, page 142. From the entry kinesalgia
  • But if a generative AI-driven "jobpocalypse" for computer science graduates doesn't seem to explain the graduate male malaise, what does?2025 July 9, John Burn-Murdoch, “Why joblessness is increasing for male graduates: Opinion Data Points”, in Financial Times, page 8. From the entry jobpocalypse
  • This could be down to a malaise in recruitment but is more likely an inevitable consequence of professional evolution.2021 March 15, Thom Gibbs, “No risks, no fun and cancel culture: Why we will never see another Murray Walker”, in The Telegraph. From the entry statty
  • There is little chance that the EU’s watchdogs have, until now, simply missed the evidence of a deeper malaise.2019, Sabrina Lawreniuk, “‘Hun Sen Won’t Die, Workers Will Die’: The Geopolitics of Labour in the Cambodian Crackdown”, in Dog Days: Made…. From the entry tip
  • Swelling, heat, and pain in one or more joints can explain many signs, including lameness, malaise, and fever.2009, Stephen J. Ettinger, Edward C. Feldman, Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, page 9. From the entry symptomatic
  • Then some fluish malaise crept through him.2008, Shirley Abbott, The Future of Love, page 89. From the entry fluish
  • Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine.2001, Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. From the entry myalgia
  • Still, many observers of the orchestra, including some players themselves, continue to detect a malaise in the institution.1987 September 13, Donal Henahan, “Music View: Our Orchestras are Splintering”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jul 2015. From the entry sickness unto death
  • The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.1967, Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories, page 236. From the entry Frances

Meaning of malaise

  1. noun A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
  2. noun An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
  3. noun Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.

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Questions about malaise in a sentence

How do you use malaise in a sentence?
Malaise is used as a noun. For example: “The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.”
What is a short sentence with malaise?
“The patient suffered from postcoital malaise.”
What does malaise mean?
Malaise means a feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

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