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have been deviling

  • present perfect progressive
    of devil.
    devil

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The truth is the cowboys in this country have been deviling me to death, nearly—ever since I started this sto'—to get them some good hats— good ones, suh.

From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson

Excuse the bruskness of my first greeting to you over the telephone, but the press have been deviling me all day, every man jack of them trying to steal a march on the rest.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Harry Bates