infliction - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • suffering: To be intentionally cruel is to find pleasure in the infliction of suffering.
  • distress: However, these decisions did acknowledge that there may be a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
  • pain: We don't want to see the infliction of pain, cruelty, any injuries or scenes of sexual violence.
  • harm: It is not a matter of physical punishment or infliction of bodily harm.
  • injury: And, needless to say, none of the cases focused on the infliction of psychiatric injury.
  • damage: Only the terrible infliction of damages are thought worth perceiving or talking about.

Converse of object

  • involve: Restraint that involves the deliberate infliction of violence is used systematically in penal custody.
  • include: Include intentional infliction is selling well had put to.
  • justify: The " animal rights " supporters cannot see how these justify the infliction of physical or emotional distress on MOOS.
  • permit: The Act can specifically permit the infliction of pain, which allows researchers to experiment on conscious animals without any anesthetic at any stage.

Adjective modifier

  • intentional: Include intentional infliction is selling well had put to.
  • deliberate: It's probably insane, a deliberate infliction of pain on oneself.
  • immediate: An assault is committed when a person intentionally or recklessly causes another to apprehend the immediate infliction of unlawful force.
  • terrible: Only the terrible infliction of damages are thought worth perceiving or talking about.

Noun used with modifier

  • self: It was self infliction of a class A drug.

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