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

By the time Queen Victoria was on the throne the grime had set in in earnest, and was hard at work long before the fifty-one Exhibition reported progress—progress in bedevilment, says the Pessimist?

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend