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Social disease

noun

A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse.

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"Social disease" Quotes from Famous Books

... and order league should be organized among the business men of Harvey to rid the county of these rats breeding social disease, and if courageous hearts are needed, and extraordinary methods necessary—all honest people will uphold the patriots ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... misinterpreted the law of development, slavery, as it exists in this country, is a morbid political condition, a social disease, which stands in the way of the natural course of social evolution. In this law, therefore, is written the doom of slavery. The enlightened world will not always permit it to blast the fair field of civilization by ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... scale, we have the parasitic class of the beggars or thieves. They, too, are not personally responsible for the conditions into which they are born. But they are not only to be pitied individually, but to be regarded, in the mass, as involving social disease and danger. More words upon that topic are quite superfluous, but I may just recall the truth that the two evils are directly connected. We hear it often said, and often denied, that the rich are growing richer ...

— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen

Words linked to "Social disease" : lymphogranuloma venereum, gonorrhoea, lues venerea, syph, chlamydia, herpes genitalis, clap, dose, gonorrhea, Venus's curse, venereal disease, contagion, granuloma venereum, syphilis, lymphopathia venereum, granuloma inguinale, LGV, lues, contagious disease, genital herpes, pox