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Meanings of bugbear in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hobgoblin"
Examples for "hobgoblin"
1
You cannot deter me now with such loose hobgoblin-talk about civil war.
2
But another hobgoblin, seeing Caramon charge over, leaped out of the window.
3
Dimly outlined against the night, he has the appearance of a friendly hobgoblin.
4
A roasted hobgoblin will be served soon after the meeting opens.
5
Then Charteris cocked his head to one side and grinned like a hobgoblin.
Usage of bugbear in English
1
Picture: Steve Humphreys The minister has a bugbear about leaks in politics.
2
However, my biggest bugbear is something that we as citizens cannot control.
3
That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded.
4
Talk also turned to a long-running bugbear of Schaeuble's: corporate tax avoidance.
5
The guard house was a bugbear to the boys of the Institute.
6
Weight is still my bugbear because I am so sensitive to food.
7
Responsibility, the bugbear of mankind, was as the breath in her nostrils.
8
Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear.
9
Home grows less and less a bugbear when you speak of it.
10
Part of the reason is because of the perennial department store bugbear.
11
So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.
12
I have no wish to be made a bugbear to my family.
13
I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me.
14
I'm sorry you've carried that bugbear about with you for so long.
15
Density, far from being the bugbear of cities, will remain their great appeal.
16
The Circassians seem to be the great bugbear in Asiatic Turkey.
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Bugbear across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common