0 to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something: --
It is clear that difficulties in quantifying written climatic records continue to bedevil what otherwise are records of high chronological precision.
This ensures an irenic and objective approach to a controversial subject which has almost always been bedevilled by lack of charity and by high emotion.
Indeed, it is this failure to agree which has bedevilled the movement.
Comparisons of these epidemiological data have been bedevilled by the lack of uniformity in defining the diagnostic criteria and pathology.
This mode of reasoning remained popular throughout the nineteenth century, and bedeviled the study of complicated singular points and their resolutions.
If the concept of the urban has been bedevilled by issues of definition, so too has that of the middle class.
Coughing fits, rustling candy wrappers - auditory interference which can bedevil any theatrical experience - are, in-the-round, aggravated by visual 'noise'.
Municipal expenditure, in turn, necessitated the growth of local taxation, whose regressive impact continued to bedevil those responsible for local government in both countries.#!
