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Six example sentences with malady, each labelled with its topic.
Runaway rent, stagnant wages, empty high streets: economists argued these were symptoms of one deeper malady, not three problems.
Economics
The novel treats small-town gossip as a malady that spreads house to house until nobody trusts a neighbor.
Literature
Researchers describe chronic loneliness as a modern malady, one that shortens lives as reliably as any physical illness.
Psychology
Commentators called low turnout a malady of the whole republic, not a problem any single election could cure.
Politics
The Stoics treated envy as a malady of judgment, to be cured by reasoning rather than by getting what the neighbor has.
Philosophy
Endless meetings are the malady of large firms, spreading until whole days pass without anyone producing a single thing.
Business
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