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bêtes noires
Synonyms and Antonyms of bêtes noires
- doing my own tax return is the bête noire that haunts me every April
black beasts, bogeys (also bogies), bugaboos, bugbears, dreads, hobgoblins, ogres
apparitions, ghosts, phantasms (also fantasms), phantoms, poltergeists, shades, specters (or spectres), spirits, spooks, wraiths
banshees, bogeymen (also bogymen), demons (or daemons), devils, fiends, ghouls, imps, incubi (also incubuses)
frights, horribles, horrors, monsters, monstrosities, terrors
banes, curses, enemies, plagues, scourges, torments
abominations, anathemas (or anathemata)
- in that organization's view, society's number one bête noire should be the drunk driver of a motor vehicle
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