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

Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suspicion, arising from his own contact with evil, though he escaped, has imparted the look of hypocrisy to all life; this is his bedevilment.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward