inflicting

• This gave the people the idea of inflicting injuries on themselves, so as to produce temporary deformities on account of which they might be rejected at the examination. —  The Promised Land
• For the better part of 50 years, the government of Iraq has too often been a bad actor in the region -- inflicting suffering on its own people and on many others. —  The Student Operated Press
• Jane is supposed to be evil, pain-inflicting, and she's supposed to have a flat monotone voice. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• Despite their craven attempt to downplay the scale of human suffering they are inflicting, the truth emerges from the rubble of Gaza's destroyed food depots, bombed hospitals, schools, mosques and U.N. compounds full of refugees. —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
• He will fall into the class represented by Marshal Villars and the Duke of Cumberland Genius is God-given, but men are responsible for their acts; and it should be said of General Grant that, as far as I am aware, he made war in the true spirit of a soldier, never by deed or word inflicting wrong on non-combatants. —  Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

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