bedevil
verb (used with object)
to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
had been bedeviling
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past perfect progressiveof bedevil.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In less than two years the world was rid of most of what had been bedeviling it.
From And All the Earth a Grave by C. C. MacApp
A loud yell went up from both officers and enlisted men, as the word went up and down the line that the dude they had been bedeviling was none other than Buffalo Bill.
From An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill
