afflicting

/ əˈflɪktɪŋ /

adjective

1. deeply distressing; painful

Example Sentences

Many of the factors afflicting the California wine industry are also hurting winemakers in other parts of the world—and those winemakers have also been ripping out vines.

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The pattern is a sort of repetition compulsion, afflicting Democratic movers and shakers along with the party as an institution.

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Alhurra is subject to the same forces afflicting all TV networks, with audiences increasingly finding their news on TikTok and YouTube.

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But the malady afflicting much of the Dodgers lineup seems to have infected the third baseman with a particularly virulent strain.

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Then and now, elected officials were blaming immigrants for all the supposed maladies afflicting this country.

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Related Words

• appalling 
• atrocious 
• calamitous 
• damaging 
• deplorable 
• dire 
• dreadful 
• egregious 
• flagrant 
• glaring 
• heinous 
• intolerable 
• lamentable 
• monstrous 
• outrageous 
• shameful 
• shocking 
• tragic 
• unbearable