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.
  • The second bite brought the heat; the third brought the malaise.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Folks in the area say a malaise has set in around the edges.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The first is that this guilt—or malaise—is a waste of time.
    — Christopher Buckley, Esquire, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Last season, the Bucks broke out of the malaise with a win streak.
    — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Which, some would say, is the source of our, and our dogs’, malaise.
    — Antonia Hitchens, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But this was still a night that pierced through a malaise.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2021
  • The opening night malaise wasn’t all due to the defense.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • My arms itched, my scalp itched, and malaise lay over me like a mist.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Where there used to be malaise is now a sense of mission.
    — Washington Post, 3 July 2021
  • The catcher had missed time, yet there was no sign of any malaise.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2022
  • Blame it on a sense of malaise brought on by stress, Dr. Balzarini says.
    — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The postponement seemed to add to a feeling of malaise.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2021
  • Movies are here to rescue you from your post-present malaise.
    — Corey Atad, Esquire, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Trains and workers plodded through the rail yard, all trapped in a deep malaise.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But the malaise has spread to the high-end shopping districts of Paris, Madrid and London.
    — Byjulien Ponthus, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Is this the source of his cinephile wisdom, or his chronic malaise?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Japan’s economy is mired in a years-long malaise and the yen has been weak.
    — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • These include fever, malaise, headache, sore throat and cough and swollen lymph nodes.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Carton's play in the second half helped shake MU out of its malaise.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The most recent coup in 2014 has added what some described as a heavy malaise.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • There was a malaise the last two years with the Warriors, despite all the winning.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Prior to the show’s premier in 2018, the karate industry had been in a malaise.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Lindor’s slump has been part of a larger malaise for the Mets at the plate this season.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 7 May 2021
  • He was struck by the way the film depicted post-college malaise and melancholy and the awkwardness of meeting new people.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The company is on more stable footing than Yoox or Net-a-porter and has managed to transcend the malaise permeating much of the luxury sector.
    — David Moin, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024

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