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
At 24 there was a favorable sitiwation of events, if there was not somebody or somethin’ afflictive on the contrary, the which I am disposed to think might be possible.
From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
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 Charles Evans
