afflicted
Example Sentences
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He wants nothing to do with the afflicted, no matter how peace-loving they appear.
From Los Angeles Times
In the mountain villages near Medellín, Colombia, an extraordinary percentage of residents are afflicted with a version of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
I think if you look at sort of notions of Christian morality, it also goes to notions of sort of innocence, being afflicted by demonic forces.
From Salon
Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
From Los Angeles Times
He died at age seventy-two of kidney cancer, a disease that afflicted many of the sailors who survived the K-19 disaster.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
