bedeviling
- present participle of bedevil.
Example Sentences
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"But they will soon be bumping against the external problems that are bedeviling the industry."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
High-pressure tactics, official-sounding messages and other tricks are potentially bedeviling taxpayers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Mateo represents a paradox bedeviling the U.S. nursing landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
The em dash is already quite accustomed to controversy, with a long history of charming and bedeviling authors, journalists and academics.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025
To his inferiors, his worrying is a bedeviling influence that irritates and helps produce the very incapacity for attention to detail that is required; and to superiors, it is a sure sign of incompetency.
From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton
