afflictive

• It's very similar to the behavior of heroin addicts; the incessant, self-afflictive abuse of a toxic, detrimental element to maintain an ephemeral feeling of satisfaction, ironically maintained under the dubious auspices of denial - upping the dose more and more. —  Countercurrents.org
• Whether its scenes have been prosperous or afflictive, but especially if they have been shameful, do they present themselves with all the vividness of the objects before us and the passing hour, and infinitely increase our pains. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• Deep as is the gloom that already encircles the world, the afflictive ordeals which that world is to suffer are still in preparation, nor can their blackness be as yet imagined. —  The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
• This Jocelin, as we can discern well, was an ingenious and ingenuous, a cheery-hearted, innocent, yet withal shrewd, noticing, quick-wilted man; and from under his monk's cowl has looked out on that narrow section of the world in a really human manner; not in any simial, canine, ovine, or otherwise inhuman manner,--afflictive to all that have humanity! —  Past and Present
• The loss of such a lady would, indeed, be very afflictive, and I hope she is in no danger. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780

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