bedevil
bedevil.01 - bother, plague
BEDEVIL-V NOTES: Frames file for 'bedevil' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, comparison with 'plague'. (from bedevil.01-v predicate notes)Aliases:
bedevil (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: botherer, devil, agent
ARG1-PPT: bothered
ARG2-MNR: bothered by, plagued with
ARG1-PPT: bothered
ARG2-MNR: bothered by, plagued with
no instrument
As many economists and businessmen see it , those incongruities underscore
a paradoxARG0
thatR-ARG0
seems likely to bedevilrel
the economyARG1
throughout the 1990sARGM-TMP
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Certainly a severer thrust into any religious system could hardly be made than by presenting it as one that commends itself very especially to the likings and the experimental logic of a
brainARG1
bedeviledrel
with alcoholARG2
.