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bête noire
Synonyms and Antonyms of bête noire
- doing my own tax return is the bête noire that haunts me every April
apparition, ghost, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, wraith
banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp, incubus
fright, horrible, horror, monster, monstrosity, terror
- in that organization's view, societyʼs number one bête noire should be the drunk driver of a motor vehicle
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