| 词汇 | bedevilled |
| 释义 | bedevilled past simple and past participle ofbedevil Examples of bedevilledbedevilled 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. All population statistics are bedevilled by the different measures used in the census and the ways in which the figures can be presented. The teaching of reading had been bedevilled by wrong theory and by people ignoring abundant evidence on what really works best. If the concept of the urban has been bedevilled by issues of definition, so too has that of the middle class. Comparisons of these epidemiological data have been bedevilled by the lack of uniformity in defining the diagnostic criteria and pathology. Indeed, it is this failure to agree which has bedevilled the movement. 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. But their efforts were repeatedly bedevilled by an acute scarcity of raw materials. The design of studies is bedevilled by the unhelpful counterposition of innate and cultural explanations, such that only the most extreme hypotheses can be disconfirmed. This avoids the problem of closed hardware design and system obsolescence, which has bedevilled high-end music systems in the past. Jurisdictional disputes between central and local authorities have always bedevilled the functioning of federal systems, rendering the theoretical designation of clear areas of competence all but impossible. However, difficult tenor resolutions must have bedevilled singers of more modest ability, and we have a small body of motets that survive with parts designated 'tenor ad longum'. A false dichotomy between good "secular nationalism" and bad "religious communalism" in statist historiography has long bedevilled our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury anti-colonialism. Media impact research is bedevilled by the difficulties of unravelling cause-and-effect relations. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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