Meanings of bete noire in English

Brott is of course the bete noire of our friends here.

And at these words my post-boy started, and released me from my bete noire.

A bete noire for the authorities, prosecutors have questioned him on numerous occasions but never pressed charges.

The pressure upon him is so frequent and trying that it becomes the bete noire of his life.

The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.

Former England midfielder and bete noire of the English soccer establishment Joey Barton as usual pulled no punches.

These were the loyalists, destined to be designated as Tories, and to become the bete noire of patriotism.

Banks has become a bete noire for pro-EU campaigners, who presented him with pies on his arrival in Westminster.

Gordon was the bete noire.

It made him a bete noire of liberals and progressives and a sitting target for satirists such as Jon Stewart.

For many, the bete noire of the 1937 Constitution is the apparently subservient role and unequal status it ascribed to women.

Now, at fifty-six and in her fourth year in the U.S. Senate, Clinton was still the bete noire of the Republican right.

But it is the latest in a series of setbacks for Phorm, which has become something of an internet industry bete noire.

Mr. Finlay may have become something of a bete noire for Fianna Fail, but he has few peers as an political strategist.

Benson attended at table, assisted by a dark-faced and very surly-looking maid, in whom Harley thought he recognized the housekeeper's bete noire.

Leo Apotheker has left HP, but his HP legacy continues to inspire a fair amount of vitriol from his old bete noire: Oracle.