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
Mary's kitchen telephone is an instrument of bedevilment.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can only account for it by that bedevilment of the entire American ideal through the retention of the English economy when the English polity was rejected.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
