bedevilment

In other words, science’s bedevilment is a result neither of madness nor of efforts to enliven undergraduate lectures with some impish examples.

Joe Biden may slip the knot of his Ukraine connection, but the more menacing of his bedevilments is yet to come.

They also know uncertainty, bedevilment, fear and doubt.

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

Not so with “Girls,” whose characters are steeped in the millennial generation’s bedevilment of feeling entitled in a world filled with McJobs.