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afflicting
/ əˈڱɪɪŋ /
adjective
- deeply distressing; painful
Example Sentences
But the malady afflicting much of the Dodgers lineup seems to have infected the third baseman with a particularly virulent strain.
Then and now, elected officials were blaming immigrants for all the supposed maladies afflicting this country.
Traditionally, we approached our jobs in the press as comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
Carter understood problems afflicting the world as spiritual challenges in part, noting that industrialized Western society had failed to adopt Christian principles of concern and caring.
Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.
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