bogeymen

variants also bogymen
plural of bogeyman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogeymen
Noun
  • In her exhaustive chronicle, Jennings traces the long folkloric history of monk-tormenting demons.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • For centuries, a peace treaty between humans and the Black World — which houses all manner of witches, demons, and ghouls — has been in place to ensure separation between the two factions.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How will the weather affect the goblins, ghosts and ghouls in your neighborhood on Halloween evening?
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But this Halloween, chasing away the ghouls haunting Tesla looks like a miracle too far.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Calhoun summarizes, the first part takes up the subject of magic and necromancy, the second treats of witchcraft and sorcery, and the third discourses of all kinds of spirits and specters.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Just in time for Halloween, the sonic phantoms that have long plagued the ladies of The View have seemingly possessed inanimate objects over on the Live With Kelly and Mark set.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Understanding neutrinos’ properties could help explain how how the universe formed, how stars evolve and whether neutrinos, which pass through the Earth and even our bodies like phantoms, are their own antiparticles.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Those spirits were awakened by several methods, from burying the packet in the ground, to tying macrame-like knots onto the parcels, to driving nails into the amulet—all to fulfill the requests of Congolese practitioners.
    Essence, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Before the event takes a deadly turn, Harry appears to be in uncharacteristically high spirits in the trailer.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His bronc riders look more like pietàs in mud; his barrel racers scream like banshees on horseback.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As with many of A24's horror movies, we're left to ponder whether anything supernatural happens as Maud's quest reaches its apotheosis, proving that fanatical belief is enough to inspire great terrors.
    Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The internet gives us more opportunity to be exposed to noteworthy terrors from other countries.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are even more spooks in the follow-up season, The Haunting of Bly Manor.
    Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield are iconic characters that are wonderfully resurrected in this remake, the spooks are top notch, and the whole thing looks, sounds, and plays unbelievably.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Bogeymen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogeymen. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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