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malaise
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  • 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.†  (source)
  • Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • 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.†  (source)
  • Burnham hoped for an early cure to the nation's financial malaise, but the economy did not oblige.†  (source)
  • But Alan did not want to despair, and did not want to be dragged down with his seatmate's malaise.†  (source)
  • "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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Poor Whitcomb, sighed the chaplain, and blamed himself for his assistant's malaise.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Clearly I had snapped out of my malaise of the previous night.†  (source)
  • And even aside from my heartache over Sophie, I stirred inside with a fretful, unhappy malaise.†  (source)
  • Very bad," he said, as though he were sinking into some long-term spiritual malaise.†  (source)
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