Noun
An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise. Jimmy Carter
These horrific murders are only a symptom of a deeper malaise. Life is hell for the living too. Whole populations - millions of Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims and Christians - are being forced to live in terror, unsure of when and from where the assault will come. Arundhati Roy
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone. James Fallows
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness. Mathieu Amalric
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. Brennan Manning
If you find yourself despairing about the state of our great country, just think about how unlikely it would have seemed, back in the malaise days of 1979, that Jimmy Carter would one day return to Washington via Reagan Airport. James Taranto