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had been bedeviling
  • past perfect progressive of bedevil.

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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

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 MacApp, C. C.