bedevil
verb (used with object)
to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
bedevilment
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a word derived from
bedevil.
Example Sentences
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Elena believes that Lila is her muse—and Lila forces Elena to succeed, through a combination of encouragement, generosity, and bedevilment.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 4, 2014
"We used to, back in the day, for the bedevilment of it."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013
Bronx juries are to the New York police what third terms are to New York mayors: sources of bedevilment.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011
Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
But having entered, the confusion and bedevilment was ten times worse than even in the churchyard itself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
