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infirmities

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for infirmities.

Editorial note

A character without body parts suffers from infirmities or death, depending on how critical the part is.

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Quick take

feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of infirmities gathered in one view.

noun

feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

noun

a moral weakness or defect

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for infirmities.

noun

feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

noun

a moral weakness or defect

Example sentences

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A character without body parts suffers from infirmities or death, depending on how critical the part is.

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This is the relevant part of the opinion: > In instances where there are process infirmities, the Court is obliged to study fair price even more carefully.

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If such a platform chooses to remove a proven strategy for traction and engagement, then it's doubling down on the headwinds and infirmities.

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Perhaps it's reasonable for people without any major debilitating physical defects or infirmities.

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Instead, I'm an extremely high-functioning porn and work addict who suspects he has serious mental infirmities.

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As a musician with infirmities and other hindrances, I have dreamed of this for many years.

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I was 23 years of age, and realised that my infirmities would withhold me from success in the world at large.

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Separating the constructive criticisms from the intrinsic infirmities isn't easy, however.

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But you don't have to get very old before it's obvious that a lot of ageing is an accumulation of small infirmities that build up over time.

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Blanket prohibitions against have run up against legal infirmities.

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There's immense power, with lots of infirmities.

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The Constitution is pretty clear that invasion or rebellion is required; this threatened move seems to suffer from the same infirmities as the Administration's attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act (against which the federal courts are pushing hard).

Quote examples

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They will still all die, roughly around the same time they would have otherwise from different causes with different infirmities (search for "sirolimus side effects").

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As for why this might impact his history, it is said in this review: "And what about the poor fellow’s body and its sad infirmities?

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Invalidate-the-law-now, discover-how-it-works- later judging is particularly troublesome when reviewing state laws, as it deprives “state courts [of ] the opportunity to construe a law to avoid constitutional infirmities.” Ferber, 458 U.

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There would also be no "privilege" to travel to another planet; it would be a dystopian scenario where humans, due to greed, arrogance, and other moral infirmities, have ruined a wonderful planet given to them, and then will go on to repeat their evil elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use infirmities in a sentence?

A character without body parts suffers from infirmities or death, depending on how critical the part is.

What does infirmities mean?

feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

What part of speech is infirmities?

infirmities is commonly used as noun.