The word "inflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an injury or harm that someone has caused or suffered. For example: "The careless driver inflicted a serious injury on the pedestrian."
The techniques inflicted on the detainees included hooding suspects, putting them into stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation and the use of white noise.
Even perfectly ordinary trousers and tops can sometimes look odd because short people aren't just inflicted with short legs; we're short all over.
The prime minister tried to move the focus to Miliband after Reckless, whose defection from the Conservatives triggered the byelection, inflicted a humiliating blow.
As a result of the vengeance the LRA inflicted upon them, Acholiland is as haunted a place as any in the world.
Instead, according to Nick Faith, director of the Westminster Policy Institute, whose founders include former Downing Street adviser Sean Worth, the government will seek to ameliorate the hurt that is inflicted through a major housebuilding programme, while hoping that economic growth will ease the challenge by bringing in greater tax receipts.
The fact you can do that, and nothing in the great universal sense is inflicted upon you".
"Due impartiality", as Trust-inflicted on the BBC, won't help make anything clear, of course.
Why, for example, Greg Smith's lesions stopped developing when he stopped scratching: because they were self-inflicted.
Many women are forced to resort to cheap and unsafe means of abortion such as self-inflicted torture, self-poisoning and inserting sharp objects, like knitting needles, into the vagina.
The failure to solve those issues, even though Arsenal still had the finance for additional recruits, results in self-inflicted pressure.
The government's budget marketing problem is self-inflicted.
