Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deviled
Verb
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The green cabbage and onion (and maybe a carrot nub, for a bit of color) should be very finely grated or even finely ground.—
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
28 Aug. 2025 -
Traditionally, the onions are grated with a box grater, but Fargian says the blender creates a similar effect.—
Samantha Husted,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Aug. 2025
Verb
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He’s tormented and has his own personal issues.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the orphans start being tormented by a demon, who was summoned after the girl’s parents prayed to whatever entity would bring their daughter back.—
Emily Palmer Heller,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Think flying in spring water to a Caribbean island because a female client thought the local water irritated her scalp.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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More and more, people who have loyally served Putin’s system are being persecuted, mainly on the grounds of corruption.—
ANDREI KOLESNIKOV,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Sep. 2025
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Molero and her husband arrived in the United States in 2003, fleeing after they were persecuted for working alongside opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But the attacker re-aggravated his hamstring at the club’s training hub in Rush Green.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Georgia also has an anti-hazing law that deems hazing a misdemeanor of a high or aggravated nature that is punishable by up to one year in jail.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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On television, the film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert structured their show so that at any time at least one of them was likely to be exasperated, possibly with the other one.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Even Yankee great Paul O’Neill, who was on the YES broadcast, was exasperated by Volpe’s decision.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Home runs, which have haunted Rockies pitchers all season, especially at Coors Field, bedeviled Gordon.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
7 Sep. 2025
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The new students were particularly bedeviled by the combination locks.—
Lily Altavena,
Freep.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Everyone Lee comes into contact with is at minimum annoyed with him most of the time, if not outright hating him.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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Keanu, still annoyed from the veto ceremony, talked to Ava Pearl in the HOH room and called Rachel a liar.—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Deviled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deviled. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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