MALADY in a Sentence

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When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.

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 Meanings and Examples of MALADY
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malady
 n.  disease, disorder, or ailment; unwholesome condition
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
2  The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
3  One day she received from the Thenardiers a letter couched in the following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds of the neighborhood."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
4  My child will not die of that frightful malady, for lack of succor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
5  The walls had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded from them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
6  When facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, the slightest complication stops and entangles them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
7  Among these men, to beat means to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
8  They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
10  With that malady of progress, civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
11  Now it is time that the malady should be over," said she; "let me rise, and obtain some success this very day.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
12  This malady admits but of one remedy; I will tell you what that is.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
13  Since the first attack I experienced of this malady, I have continually reflected on it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
14  The doctor analyzed the symptoms of the malady to which the prisoner had succumbed, and declared that he was dead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
15  "It is the sort of malady which we call monomania," said the doctor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
Example Sentence:
1  A mysterious malady swept the country, filling doctors' offices with feverish, purple-spotted patients.
2  All the rose bushes seem to be suffering from the same mysterious malady.
3  Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.