Meaning & use
maladies
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Diseases or illnesses, often used more broadly to include ongoing problems or ailments.
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The old doctor had treated every kind of malady in his forty years of practice.
Economists described inflation and unemployment as the twin maladies of the decade.
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Often used figuratively beyond medicine, to describe social, economic, or political problems.
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