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bedeviled

adjective as in accursed

adjective as in possessed

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QAnon has featured prominently in real-world violence, including through its devotees’ participation in the Capitol siege, and it has bedeviled tech companies who have scrambled to remove known purveyors of violent threats and conspiratorial lies.

Delivering vaccines to millions of people in mere months was destined to hit roadblocks, and even nations with vaunted pandemic responses, such as Germany, have been bedeviled by the complexity of that effort.

That would make for two issues that have long bedeviled the city, which are both especially resonant in her coastal district.

While a 51-vote Senate would have a better shot at solving the problems that bedevil the country, it will not solve them all, and it may make some worse.

From Vox

My case, which is spelled out in detail here, looks back at what bedeviled Presidents as the glow of their return to office faded.

The teams arrived on Dec. 13 at the South Pole after a difficult trip bedeviled by atrocious conditions.

So the Democratic gathering is the second convention to be bedeviled by bad weather.

But things have not turned out that way, like so much else in this bedeviled relationship.

The issue of human-rights abuses has always bedeviled Beijing.

Barometers way down, compass is bedeviled, seams opening fore and aft.

On summer mornings he saw himself as a knight of virtue advancing clear-eyed upon a bedeviled world.

The old cocks save their powder,—that is unless they get bedeviled with a panic.

He was perfect in his line, though sadly at a disadvantage; ravished from his forest-world, and bedeviled with alien civilization.

The squire was sure that "bedeviled tigress would never die in bed."

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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bedeviled, such as: condemned, damned, doomed, hexed, done for, and ill-fated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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