BEDEVILED 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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Growing tent encampments have bedeviled urban leaders for years. —

CBS News, 9 June 2026 Oddly enough, Lewis — bedeviled by a series of injuries that included two season-ending knee surgeries since even before his MLB clock started ticking — has been healthy and unproductive. —

John Shipley, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026 And in a city known for last-minute ticket buying that long bedeviled the live music scene, he could be forgiven for watching ticket sales like a fever. —

Chris Kenning, USA Today, 15 May 2026 But this project was bedeviled with budget trouble, and axed before anyone got to see it. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 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

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At the risk of sounding less like a columnist and more like a bewildered bystander … what the heck happened?

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
Urged by a call from Hugo to destroy her phone and flee Kansas City fast, before WARDEX can get to her, Margaret also hits the road, accompanied initially by a bewildered Jackson.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026