bedevilment

NOUN
  1. the act of harassing someone
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How To Use bedevilment In A Sentence

  • His list of vices began and ended with the bedevilment of opposing pitchers. WILLIE MAYS
  • I guarantee that none of the lessons I've prescribed will take root; I will swear at traffic, get peeved at fellow mortals, drop off to sleep thinking about the petty bedevilments of the coming day.
  • During Samhain, people outfitted themselves in masks and costumes as a sort of protection ritual, believing that one could successfully hide behind such a disguise and thereby escape bedevilment by the masses of spirits on the loose. Donna Henes: Doing Death Before it Does Us
  • They did create chances, but failure to take them has been the bedevilment of their season.
  • Mr. Tate, his dog under his arm, paused at the door to fling over his shoulder another muttered taunt about "bedevilment," and disappeared. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
  • I'm sure the establishment does this sort of thing for bedevilment. Porter Not Free Yet....
  • Gilead, Ames perceives Jack's questions at a gathering with the Boughtons about predestination as another of his familiar efforts at "bedevilment:" simply trying to cause problems, embarrassment or conflict between Ames and Old Boughton by toying with their differing theological commitments. The Daily Register
  • ‘The worst bedevilment of all is being in exile within one's own skin,’ he wrote.
  • Smitty glanced at her and noticed the bedevilment settling on her features.
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