bedevilment

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An understated comic actor, he was especially adept at conveying life’s tiny bedevilments.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2014

In the warm kitchens �each with two sinks and two stoves to keep dairy and meat foods strictly separate�the women work and wonder when the community will be free of its mundane bedevilments.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may end up in a conventionally moral place, but they work their way toward it circuitously, riskily, giving a variety of all too human bedevilments their due.

From Time Magazine Archive

That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election in 1930.

From Time Magazine Archive

The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker would be all down on me with summonses, and writs, and executions, and bedevilments of every imaginable kind.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor