afflictive
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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
In the one, it is an expression of resignation to the Father's afflictive dispensations; in the other, the heartfelt desire to work out the revealed will of God in all the many-sided aspects of life.
From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin
But fathers—because they design to have their children wise and valiant, apt for counsel or for arms—send them to severe governments, and tie them to study, to hard labor, and afflictive contingencies.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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