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physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)- Just one shrill blow and you will see your animal shudder with malaise and repair at top speed to the safest, furthest part of its territory.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Very bad," he said, as though he were sinking into some long-term spiritual malaise.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Clearly I had snapped out of my malaise of the previous night.James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
- Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhoea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- And you see, I hope, a Britain emerging from its post-Empire malaise, modernizing, becoming as confident of its future as it once was of its past.Tony Blair -- First Address to Irish Parliament From a British PM
- Poor Whitcomb, sighed the chaplain, and blamed himself for his assistant's malaise.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- His unusual conduct was, I believe, a simple by-product of the deepening atmosphere of malaise and fear.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Once more his very presence made her feel better; she was suffused by a drowsy fatigue but the nausea and deep malaise were gone.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- Mr. Babcock's moral malaise, I am afraid, lay deeper than where any definition of mine can reach it.Henry James -- The American
- But Alan did not want to despair, and did not want to be dragged down with his seatmate's malaise.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- One evening as I walked up the hill suffering from youth's vague malaise (there was simply nothing to do), the brother I had chosen came walking directly into my trap.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- To-day, in mysterious malaise, he raged or rejoiced with equal nervous swiftness, and to-day the light of spring was so winsome that he lifted his head and saw.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- "She just got back," the doorman tells Gogol with a wink as he walks past, and his heart leaps, unburdened of its malaise, grateful for her simple act of returning to him.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- Fronted by a lush lawn and palm trees, the Union Passenger Terminal had opened in 1954, an art deco–style building once aspiring to grandness but since overtaken by a certain grey municipal malaise.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- He has wiped away my professional malaise and shown me the dignity in being loyal to something you believe in, and it's not a stretch to say that this man I hoped to save has done as much for me as I have for him.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- Horace had served as a medical officer for twenty months in the Pacific theater and had suffered in that period from sleep deprivation and from a generalized and perpetual tropical malaise that had rendered him, in his own mind, ineffective.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body—making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
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