afflictive

Example Sentences

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The standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: "Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature."

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2019

L’Heureux’s own expertise is in our sites of afflictive potential.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

This of course was in direct violation of the General’s orders, but was no less afflictive to the poor sufferers on this account.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2019

All the pains that my infirmities ever brought on me," he adds, "were never half so grievous and afflictive as the unavoidable loss of time which they occasioned.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

The glorious results of the campaign of 1781 were, however, associated with an event most afflictive to her.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)