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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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