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Example sentences for: ills

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Teachers have been made scapegoats for many social ills; it would be a service to acknowledge their occasional courage and virtue in opposing the flatheads of the world, rather than lumping them in with the fools.
The emotions still exist, however, and the psychological price we pay for the repression is in neurosis and other civilized ills.
While the '80s recovery brought a rise in social problems such as homelessness and welfare, the '90s boom has been accompanied by a decline in those same ills.
The writing in 0both halves, though lean and muscular--the author falls prey to none of the ills of turgidity that he so lavishly dispraises--is polished and witty, spiced with revealing anecdotes and sparkling detail.
Do you think the ills she recounts might be righted if in communities there were more opportunities for men to cooperate?