BE DEVILED Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

bedeviled 1 of 2

adjective

as in bewildered

suffering from mental confusion some bedeviled motorists have complained that the road maps are more a hindrance than a help

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bedeviled

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verb

past tense of bedevil

as in plagued

to cause persistent suffering to a lingering cold bedeviled me for over a month

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Recent Examples of bedeviled

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Mattison was excited about the possibility of helping the Dolphins solve their short-yardage shortcomings, a problem that had bedeviled them the previous two seasons. —

Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2026 Libya’s central bank is suing Zimbabwe’s finance minister and national oil company for more than $100 million, the latest development in a spiraling debt crisis that’s bedeviled the southern African nation for a quarter of a century. —

William Clowes, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026 The acrimony that bedeviled so many bands that NOFX avoided for 40 years had finally caught up with them. —

Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026 Perhaps in Iran, which has been engulfed by mass protests, leading the president to threaten action against an oppressive regime that has bedeviled the United States for nearly half a century. —

Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026 These questions will be tough, likely impossible, to answer to everyone's satisfaction — and several have bedeviled lawmakers, and Iowans, before. —

Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Des Moines Register, 8 Jan. 2026 Daniel Cole/Reuters Hiring slowed in November, resuming sluggish performance that has bedeviled the labor market for much of this year and elicited a series of interest rate cuts, a fresh jobs report on Tuesday showed. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2025 The resulting statement included commitments by both sides to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as to renounce the use of force to acquire land, something that had bedeviled their relations for decades. —

Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025 Fraser was bedeviled by Elizabeth Hurley’s Beelzebub in Bedazzled (2000), earned career-best reviews for the Vietnam drama The Quiet American (2002), and landed a role in the Best Picture-winning Crash (2004). —

Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedeviled

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The tragedy at first bewildered law enforcement in both states, as investigators were unsure why Miller traveled to Utah or why the three women were killed.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
Olivier tried successfully to get the reader to understand how a gentle, pacific young man could come to kill more than a thousand people, and so capturing the tone and empathetic portrayal not only of Simo Häyhä and his colleagues but also of the often-bewildered Russian soldiers was essential.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026