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Example sentences from the Web for afflicting“This Vanderbilt person is a perfect example,” Beyer says of the “PTSD” afflicting so many in the transgender community. Pressuring Journalists Won’t Protect Transgender People|James Kirchick|January 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Exit might give them a nice export boost, relieving some of the crippling unemployment currently afflicting Italian workers. Euro Crisis: Reheated|Megan McArdle|February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST This question highlights some of the hypocrisy currently afflicting Republican partisans on the issue of infidelity. Dr. Gingrich, or How the GOP Learned To Stop Worrying and Love an Adulterer|Michael Medved|January 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST And the strokes themselves are extremely rare, afflicting an estimated two people out of every 100,000. A Stroke That Hits Young Women|Nicole LaPorte|July 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
A prominent agent used that telling phrase to describe the problem that was afflicting Cruise. The Resurrection of Tom Cruise|Kim Masters|May 1, 2009|DAILY BEAST Ignorant of what god was afflicting them, they appealed impartially all round, in the hope of hitting the right one. Bible Romances|George W. Foote Upon receiving this afflicting intelligence, I hastened to the spot, and found Charley's account too true. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia|Ludwig Leichhardt But most afflicting was the condition of mind into which the Tories had fallen. In Hostile Red|Joseph Altsheler I should probably have closed my days in that place of all afflicting sights and sounds, but for my good old Béguine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844|Various True, the sufferings of the cross he viewed as near, but they were not yet commenced; nor can we discover any one afflicting him. Jesus, The Messiah; or, the Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in the New Testament Scriptures|(A Lady) Anonymous
adjectivedeeply distressing; painful Words nearby afflictingaffixation, affixture, afflated, afflatus, afflict, afflicting, affliction, afflictive, affluence, affluency, affluent Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to afflictingannoy, torture, bother, wound, oppress, beset, torment, burden, plague, rack, crucify, smite, pester, pain, distress, agonize, lacerate, grieve, vex, try |