0 to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something:
The authors start with a convincing exposition of the fragmentation and poor co-ordination that bedevils many services for older people.
It was bedevilled by unemployment, social exclusion and a growing sense of precariousness and inequality.
This is a subject that has been bedevilled by the gulf between literary, liturgical and musical scholars.
In the long run, debates and policy developments in this area are bedeviled by a simple lack of knowledge.
All population statistics are bedevilled by the different measures used in the census and the ways in which the figures can be presented.
Now it is entirely appropriate to wish "equilibrium" restored, but that is not the only pertinent reductionism bedeviling this domain.
The teaching of reading had been bedevilled by wrong theory and by people ignoring abundant evidence on what really works best.
Municipal expenditure, in turn, necessitated the growth of local taxation, whose regressive impact continued to bedevil those responsible for local government in both countries.#!
