Cupid's disease

Synonyms for "cupid's disease" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
cupid's itchdose

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
sexually transmitted diseasesocial diseasestd

Related words (4)

Noun(4 words)
vdvenereal diseasevenereal infectionvenus's curse

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contagioncontagious disease

Sample sentences

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"Yes, Cupid's Disease—syphilis, you know. I was in a brother in Salonika, nearly seventy years ago. I caught syphilis—lots of the girls had it—we called it Cupid's Disease. My husband saved me, took me out, had it treated. That was years before penicillin, of course. Could it have caught up with me after all these years?"

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Post-syphilic syndrome is reputedly rather fun. You get to experience lots of luscious sexy sensations. That's why it's called Cupid's Disease.

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As the word "syphilis" took on the taint of the malady, however, vaguer tems such as special disease, social disease, secret disease, vice disease, Cupid's disease, a certain disease, blood disease, and blood poison emerged.

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It wasn't Cupid's disease, as the gossipmongers charged. It was radium.

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