bedevilment

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

But the case�and its causes �remain too special to expand into identifiable bedevilment in man's fate.

From Time Magazine Archive

But having entered, the confusion and bedevilment was ten times worse than even in the churchyard itself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various