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
Soon after this event he sustained an afflictive bereavement in the death of his eldest son, Springett Penn, in the twenty-first year of his age.
From A Concise Biographical Sketch of William Penn by Evans, Charles
The disease, respecting which the present inquiry is made, is of a nature highly afflictive.
From An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by Parkinson, James
