afflictive
Americanadjective
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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
There is another circumstance still more afflictive to a man who is attached, as I am, to a republican government, and one that I perceive has not occurred to you.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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