affliction
Example Sentences
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“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
It’s the affliction of overthinking: If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, wait, hold on, it must be a chandelier.
I fear we are turning out the most confused generation, with an affliction of contradiction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
