The phrase "afflicted the most" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group or individual that has experienced the highest level of suffering or hardship compared to others.
Example: "In the aftermath of the disaster, it was the elderly who were afflicted the most, struggling to find shelter and resources."
Alternatives: "suffered the most" or "experienced the greatest affliction".
The episode of the banner was the latest in a series of humiliations this month afflicting the most hallowed edifice in all of China.
As does his implication that melancholy afflicts the most ambitious human efforts, that it is a historical and collective, not just a personal, fate.
"Pneumonia disproportionately afflicts the most marginalised and the poorest children, accounting for the deaths of almost 1 million children under five each year, according to UNICEF's latest estimates", said Dr. Mickey Chopra, head of UNICEF's global health programmes.
We have previously shown that type I SMA patients, afflicted with the most severe form of the disease, display an increased number of glucagon-producing α-cells within islets as well as abnormal glucose levels (28).
(On the other hand, myopia is negatively associated with age-related macular degeneration. ) Young people afflicted with the most serious degree of myopia display few other symptoms, but middle-aged individuals with "high" (severe) myopia exhibit many pathologies of the eye.
Every year, three out of every 1,000 children are born with a genetic disease, such as cystic fibrosis, that did not afflict the parents who most likely unknowingly carried a defective copy of a particular gene.
Since a personally devastating experience some months before, Anna has become cripplingly agoraphobic: Many of us — the most severely afflicted, the ones grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder — are housebound, hidden from the messy, massy world outside.
Still, the reform effort shaping up in Newark gives us reason to be hopeful about a problem that has afflicted the city and its most vulnerable families for too long.
The problem of priestly abuse might indeed be the sturdiest link between Francis and Benedict — and a lingering reminder that what has most grievously afflicted the Church in recent decades came not from the outer world, but from within.
