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Meanings of hobgoblin in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bugbear"
Examples for "bugbear"
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.
Usage of hobgoblin in English
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.
6
Human imagination never conceived hobgoblin or witch more ugly than she.
7
Not even the dragonhelm could keep away the foul odor of perspiring hobgoblin.
8
Tika, still wielding her skillet, thunked a hobgoblin over the head.
9
That was the best part of it, said the hobgoblin.
10
He scarcely dared to breathe lest the hobgoblin should observe and seize him likewise.
11
The hobgoblin extravaganza Mr. Prokofieff wrote unfolds itself with rapidity.
12
There was gritty laughter from the trees behind the hobgoblin.
13
A low moaning sound came from beneath two hobgoblin bodies.
14
You're not going to frighten me in that hobgoblin sort of way, you know.
15
Peregrine deferred his hobgoblin laughter, for success emboldened him farther.
16
It was the most dangerous hobgoblin I've seen.
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Hobgoblin through the time