Definition of bedeviling
: causing trouble, distress, or confusion : vexing
- a bedeviling variety of options
- … space can be as bedeviling as time.
- —Thomas Mallon
- … the bedeviling phenomenon known as lower back pain.
- —Alfred Meyer
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bedevilingly
adverb-
- … had developed a keen sense of how bedevilingly hard it was to control the boisterous energies released by the American Revolution.
- —Joseph J. Ellis
