"inflict on" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to mean to cause or impose something unpleasant or unwelcome. For example: "The bad weather inflicted on the city for months."
It is a feeling that De Gea could inflict on many opponents for years to come.
Thus reassured, the pants, at $450, seemed a justifiable sprain to inflict on my credit card.
It becomes ever harder to comprehend the seemingly limitless atrocities humans can inflict on one another.
Rankism is the primary source of the indignities we inflict on one another.
But there are limits to the chastisement one African leader will inflict on another.
An excellent question, and not one a college student would normally have the opportunity to inflict on Hirsch.
This is the fate some would inflict on William Shakespeare.
"Don't inflict on me the cynicism of those who are nostalgic for Communism," Uribe interrupted.
India would hope to inflict on Pakistan a stinging but local defeat.
Which weighty tome had the indispensable gentleman's gentleman chosen to inflict on yours truly?
The photo presaged the havoc Sandy would inflict on the Brooklyn waterfront and its businesses.
