"bedeviled" is a correct and usable English word
You can use it when you want to express something has been plagued or made difficult in a supernatural way, or as a synonym for "bewitched" or "tormented". Example sentence: She was bedeviled by a mysterious force that made it impossible to concentrate.
Apart from its native <video> and <audio> tags that make handling multimedia so much slicker, HTML 5 is expected to solve a huge problem that has bedeviled publishers seeking to create online versions of their publications with the same look and feel as their print editions.
Even then, early failures, such as the lack of a clear stance on vital issues like currency, bedeviled the campaign.
And that fact has bedeviled economists' attempts to figure out just how important a half century's worth of economic integration, in breadth and depth, has been to the European economy.
Three days earlier he had also apologised for receiving an improper political donation from another farmers' group in Yamagata which itself receives state subsidies.If this sounds familiar it is because similar scandals bedeviled the previous two holders of the farm minister's portfolio.
During the 1880s, when Irish demands for land reform and an autonomous parliament (Home Rule) increasingly bedeviled British politics and caused a deep rift in the Liberal Party, Chamberlain favoured Irish reform, especially at the local level, and stood with Gladstone in opposition to the use of repressive force in quashing Irish agitation.
Regularly printed newspapers first appeared about 1600 and multiplied rapidly thereafter, though they were frequently bedeviled by censorship regulations.
The same kind of conflict between different classes that had bedeviled medieval Europe would, albeit in muted forms, also afflict the United States, because the seeds of such competition were planted in human nature itself.
Among his students in Palermo was Wilhelm Körner, a German chemist who made his subsequent career in Italy and whose "absolute" method of determining the structure of aromatic derivatives solved a problem that had bedeviled organic chemists for many years.
The problem of Vilnius and its surrounding region bedeviled Polish-Lithuanian relations.
Thus, the man whose elevation to the position of heir presumptive had bedeviled the caliph's rule, as well as the vizier closely associated with that policy, were eliminated.
Moreover, while overseeing the demanding transition to a free-market economy, a succession of Macedonian governments have been bedeviled by corruption and forced to combat organized crime.
