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  • adjective rare sick; ill

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Non je pense sincerement qu'ormis ma timidité maladive je suis quand meme un bon et gentil vendeur et d'ailleurs ma patronne me demandait ce que j'allais faire apres mes examens.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Oriental would infinitely despise that maladive Parisienne in whom our neighbours delight, and whom I long to send to the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Il est connu pour son coté "épicurien", mais aussi pour cette attirance maladive pour les "jolie choses" comme il le dit et notamment les jeunes garcons.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • “Munkasir” = broken, frail, languishing the only form of the maladive allowed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Si j'avais le choix entre me debarasser de ma timidité maladive ou ma narco ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Le medecin n'avait jamais vu ca mais j'lui ai dit que ct tout l'temps comme ca quand j'etais fatigué ... plus ma timidité maladive et bien voila ca a pas fait bon menage.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • -- In the depth of his mind of a tall, uncultured boy, commences again, to make him suffer more, the struggle of those two sentiments of a too refined man, which are an inheritance of his unknown father: an attachment almost maladive to the home, to the land of childhood, and a fear of returning to be enclosed in it, when there exist in the world other places so vast and so free.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • The sensible Oriental would infinitely despise that maladive Parisienne in whom our neighbours delight, and whom I long to send to the Hospital.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Munkasir" = broken, frail, languishing the only form of the maladive allowed.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Akira Kurosawa est très certainement mon réalisateur préféré, et ce, parce que bien au-delà de ma japanophilie maladive, ses films ne cessent jamais de me surprendre et de me toucher.

    Midnight Poutine 2010

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