He's not a friend, he's an infliction. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
These people all seem to have the same brain infliction. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Virginia Delegate Fighting To Invalidate Health Reform: Reform Is ‘Criminal,’ An Attempt To Take ‘Your Soul’] Reference
This infliction occurs when you sit on your hands all day and do nothing!. From Wordnik.com. [Beat 360° 9/30/08] Reference
Note "non-injurious": in other words the infliction of pain is permissible so long as there is no lasting damage. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He ordered to come at His call the infliction of punishment by "fire" on Israel, that is, drought (compare Am 4: 6-11). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
'Oh, atrocious!' it shrieks, in agony, and in anger too, as if the very keenness of the infliction were a proof of its injustice. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Reversing the Ottoman infliction was no mean feat. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
The lesser infliction moves the fish and improves sport. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
But we see that justice does not demand its prompt infliction. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Penalties and the method of their infliction are more exactly fixed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
All prisoners of war are liable to the infliction of retaliatory measures. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Now in God's infliction of suffering these two principles come clearly into view. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The sight of suffering does one good; the infliction of suffering does one more good. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
Hence the suffering that is inflicted is not punishment; it is discipline; the Fatherly infliction of love. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
As late as the next year the cardinal demands the infliction of the death penalty on all Protestant preachers. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The eschar separated in nine days from the infliction of the wound, leaving the parts healed and free from scar. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
Unlike such efforts in general, it was exceedingly fresh and new, so that, instead of its being that infliction that. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
The State evidently has rights over its citizens, and may enforce these rights through the infliction of punishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Because of the latter infliction, the good father might not be as keen-eyed as when clocking who's at Mass and who isn't. From Wordnik.com. [Priest in Kilvarnet] Reference
Like all other punishments, and still more than all other punishments, the actual infliction of it is an evil to society. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Sacrifice, properly speaking, is the infliction of death upon a living creature for the purposes of religious worship, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
So the Catsouras family sued the CHP for negligence, privacy invasion and infliction of emotional harm, among other charges. From Wordnik.com. [A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away] Reference
I determined at once to embrace it before I could be made the instrument for the infliction of further injury upon my lover. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
But upon obedience the social will insists, and it compasses its ends by the bestowal of rewards or the infliction of punishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Perhaps they thought the exposure to a burning sun, and a severe headache, sufficient to keep me in subjection without any other infliction. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
This professor, whose profession involves the careful use of words, thinks America is awash with people taking pleasure from the deliberate infliction of cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Still Waiting For Lefty] Reference
The statement said the pop singer and her attorney expect Fernando Flores 'sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress lawsuit to be dismissed. From Wordnik.com. [Spears' Ex Kevin Federline Defends Britney, Disputes Abuse Claims] Reference
If you find yourself inclined toward staging a rescue yourself, try to remember that the best solutions come from the ones who need them, not via infliction from a third party. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Muzio: Don't Be the JetBlue Flight Attendant: How to Avoid Workplace Drama (VIDEO)] Reference
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