Definition of "bedeviled" [bedeviled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of bedevil. (verb)

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• "While Milk benefits from an amazing performance in the title role by Sean Penn and other excellent performances by Vincent Garber at Mayor Moscone and Josh Brolin as Supervisor Dan White, it suffers because it has in miniature some of the same tensions in intent that have kind of bedeviled Van Sant's career as a whole."
• "South Africa was still "bedeviled" by racism and Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale's family's experiences in a Rouxville, Free"
• "The issue of in camera hearings had been "bedeviled" by the recent controversy over secret indemnity applications by two former cabinet ministers, the police commissioner and 3500 policemen."