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Example sentences for: malady

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Unfortunately, many of the measurements now used by insurance companies to assess quality pay little attention—if any at all—to the complexity of a patient's illness, or to the importance of spending time trying to define the underlying malady.
The Jordan retirement coverage offers yet more proof that the leading untreated malady among sportswriters is hyperbolic myopia.
And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological malady: LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression.
They've revived an ailing dog ( ER 's Anthony Edwards), spent $700 nursing a rabbit back to health (actress Gretchen Mol), spearheaded efforts to free an inhumanely caged gorilla (Doris Day), and aided African elephants that suffer from "Floppy Trunk Syndrome," a malady that keeps the poor beasts from eating properly (Alicia Silverstone).
A long article investigates "attachment disorder," a psychological malady that affects neglected east European toddlers adopted by Americans.