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1. A malady is an illness or disease. (OLD-FASHIONED)

He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.

The old woman has been afflicted by one malady after another all winter long.

2. In written English, people sometimes use maladies to refer to serious problems in a society or situation.

When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.

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