How to Use bedevil in a Sentence

bedevil

verb
Definition of bedevilnext
Synonyms for bedevilnext
  • The theory bedevils scientists, none of whom have been able to prove it true or false.
  • The project has been bedeviled by problems since its inception.
  • To top it off, she is being bedeviled by voices that mock and tease her.
    — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 18 May 2018
  • Castillo throws hard but that's not what bedevils the Brewers' hitters.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The claim is the latest in a string of maneuvers that have bedeviled Trump and Cohen.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2018
  • That's the conundrum bedeviling home buyers, sellers and real estate agents this spring.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 9 May 2018
  • Wednesday was exactly that kind of game that has bedeviled Arizona State baseball this season.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But this introduces the same hold-out problem—where small groups can exert undue influence—as bedevils property markets.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • That imprecise phrasing bedeviled federal courts for years thereafter.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2018
  • And public banking offers a way out of a box that bedevils practically every political campaign.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • For more than two decades, this type of crime has bedeviled the country.
    — Steven Gordon, Quartz Africa, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The is not the first hiccup to have bedeviled the new 007 adventure.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 4 June 2019
  • Sean Hjelle took the mound in the sixth, and he, too, was bedeviled by singles, giving up four in the seventh and three runs to go with it.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Rich and Green had sent them as a Christmas prank to bedevil his pursuers.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2020
  • There are a lot of problems that bedevil us that are difficult, and this is not one of them.
    — ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2021
  • That’s what has most bedeviled this effort from the start — even more than the specific substance of the land-use changes.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 5 Dec. 2018
  • As the Earp heir, Wynonna is fated to protect the hamlet of Purgatory — and the world — from the demons that bedevil the town.
    — Maureen Ryan, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • The debate over buy-backs is bedevilled by six muddles.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But even though the fires may well keep raging through the summer, their smoke might not bedevil quite as many people as the current smoke has.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
  • This is a question that has bedeviled a lot of candidates.
    — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2019
  • Those fears may also bedevil a Didi attempt to list in Hong Kong.
    — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The problem of evil has bedeviled Christian thinkers from the beginning.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Who was this person, jittery among the stacks of books drenched in rain in her rust-red raincoat — the same color of an old, open-back dress that he had once said bedeviled him?
    — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • But the idyllic setting belied some of the problems that have bedeviled the city’s 48 active outdoor pools.
    — Curbed, 3 July 2023
  • The last straw came a few weeks ago, when Shine lost a pair of cooks at a time when hiring kitchen staff continues to bedevil local restaurants.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • As long as that’s true, acronym bills will continue to bedevil us.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Many of the issues have bedeviled U.S.-China relations for years.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Visits to downtown San Jose have soared over the last year, providing a welcome counterpoint to the forbidding economic trends that bedeviled the Bay Area in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • The lack of charging infrastructure already bedevils the market for EV passenger cars.
    — San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024

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