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Meanings of boogeyman in English
Usage of boogeyman in English
1
The Anvil was just a huge boogeyman after all, like you said.
2
He was her boogeyman, the fount of all her miseries and unhappiness.
3
Yes, this area of the river was an inspiration, not a lurking boogeyman.
4
When they even give your middle name, you know you're an authentic boogeyman.
5
Then Eddie G's boogeyman turns up in Dallas, at my shop.
6
Every corner of the military community has its own boogeyman.
7
Old Man Ravenwood was the boogeyman of Gatlin, a story I'd heard since kindergarten.
8
With that, local media at odds with the government crowned him the new radical boogeyman.
9
For more than a year, there were few consequences for Trump invoking an Islamic boogeyman.
10
For so many years he was my personal boogeyman.
11
We're all civilized, reasonably well-educated adults, and adults aren't supposed to believe in the boogeyman.
12
Fathers were a myth where I grew up; a legend, kind of like the boogeyman.
13
Certainly you'd kick the boogeyman's ass and flex-cuff him.
14
Wendy was only scared of the boogeyman summoned up by a single hysterical little boy.
15
Jude could believe in a ghost but not a boogeyman, a pure incarnation of evil.
16
Now, conflict between the United States and its trading partners appears to be markets' biggest boogeyman.
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