afflicted

The party elites are afflicted with hubris and incompetence.

There are clashes and there is closure, but mostly there’s just Vera, bustling around in that ratty coat and beat-up car, to solve the case, save the day and aid the afflicted.

"I wanted to write about a time when the continent wasn't afflicted by colonialism and there were thriving societies," she says.

He was much more at home in the presence of the afflicted and downtrodden.

Doctors have raised alarms as young workers have been afflicted with silicosis, a deadly illness caused by inhaling particles of crystalline silica.