affliction

Example Sentences

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For Belichick, they say, it's part love of the game, part love for coaching, and part an affliction that has ailed many great sports figures: an inability to know when to say goodbye.

From BBC

Wherever they went, they were offered baptism, and some in their affliction converted and stayed behind, but very few.

From Literature

“My niece Penelope has an affliction of the foot,” she said, shooting me a look that could have set fire to kindling wood.

From Literature

The inability to comprehend the significance of big numbers is a human affliction.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think of the need to make things as a kind of affliction,” she says.

From Salon