bedevilment
- 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
Mary's kitchen telephone is an instrument of bedevilment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He's too wild—too full of what Hagar Warren calls bedevilment.
From Maggie Miller by Holmes, Mary Jane