How to Use malaise in a Sentence

malaise

noun
Definition of malaisenext
Synonyms for malaisenext
  • The symptoms include headache, malaise, and fatigue.
  • The country's current economic problems are symptoms of a deeper malaise.
  • An infected person will feel a general malaise.
  • Folks in the area say a malaise has set in around the edges.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The second bite brought the heat; the third brought the malaise.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But this was still a night that pierced through a malaise.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2021
  • The first is that this guilt—or malaise—is a waste of time.
    — Christopher Buckley, Esquire, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The opening night malaise wasn’t all due to the defense.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Where there used to be malaise is now a sense of mission.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
  • For many of us, the dog days of summer come with a sense of malaise.
    — Jody Schmal and Mizanur Rahman, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
  • But while the virus lingered, the market malaise did not.
    — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Last season, the Bucks broke out of the malaise with a win streak.
    — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The postponement seemed to add to a feeling of malaise.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2021
  • The catcher had missed time, yet there was no sign of any malaise.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2022
  • My arms itched, my scalp itched, and malaise lay over me like a mist.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Movies are here to rescue you from your post-present malaise.
    — Corey Atad, Esquire, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Which, some would say, is the source of our, and our dogs’, malaise.
    — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Is this the source of his cinephile wisdom, or his chronic malaise?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Trains and workers plodded through the rail yard, all trapped in a deep malaise.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Would the shock to my system shake me out of this quarantine malaise?
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Much has been made of the cultural malaise at the company.
    — Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There was a general malaise in the league for almost the entire decade.
    — Barry Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • All of this has led me to feel an overwhelming sense of malaise about the internet.
    — Hazlitt, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The reserve was conceived at a time of gas lines and economic malaise.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 16 July 2018
  • That malaise may have profound implications in the years to come.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In spite of viral angst and economic malaise, the glass is much more than half full.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • These include fever, malaise, headache, sore throat and cough and swollen lymph nodes.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Packing peanuts litter the floor, malaise drips like hot, messy wax over the side of a candle.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 17 May 2021
  • There was a malaise the last two years with the Warriors, despite all the winning.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The pandemic lockdowns caused many to fall into a malaise.
    — Mark Naida, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022

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