Definition of Affliction

a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony

Examples of Affliction in a sentence

Although some people claim that she is lucky because she can’t gain weight, she considers it an affliction.  🔊

Despite her adolescent affliction of acne scarring, she is a beautiful woman, inside and out.  🔊

If his only affliction is the inability to tell a lie, he will never make it in politics.  🔊

A good percentage of all homeless people suffer from some untreated mental affliction.  🔊

Alcoholism is a serious disease, but those who are affected by this affliction rarely get any sympathy from the general public.  🔊

Throughout history, lower classes and many minorities have suffered because those in power considered them to be an affliction on society.  🔊

Repetitive motion syndrome is a painful affliction that results from making the same movements in a continuing manner for long periods of time.  🔊

She had never told anyone about her affliction because she didn’t want any special treatment.  🔊

I never knew very much about MS until my best friend started to experience some signs of the affliction.  🔊

Because the symptoms of food poisoning and intestinal flu are very similar, we often don’t know which affliction is making our lives so miserable.  🔊

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