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Synonyms for bête noire


Grammar : Noun
Spell : beyt nwahr; French bet nwar
Phonetic Transcription : ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑr; French bɛt ˈnwar

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Définition of bête noire

Origin :
  • "insufferable person," 1844, from French bête noire "personal aversion," as an adjective, "stupid, foolish;" literally "the black beast."
  • noun disliked person
Example sentences :
  • And at these words my post-boy started, and released me from my bete noire.
  • Extract from : « Pelham, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • It is a morbid desire to wear the skates on my feet that has always been my bete noire.
  • Extract from : « Remarks » by Bill Nye
  • The weather, being practically the bete noire of our existence, came in for a good deal of abuse.
  • Extract from : « The Home of the Blizzard » by Douglas Mawson
  • It was a solution to her great difficulty, a loophole by which she might get rid of her bete noire, the hated Isabel.
  • Extract from : « East Lynne » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Even the winter snows—forever its bete noire—did not discourage him, not for long, at any rate.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad » by Edward Hungerford
  • Bradwood, the rival, the bete noire of the banking-house of Mortimer & Co.
  • Extract from : « The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) » by Alexandre Dumas pre
  • At last I lost my bete noire, and found a place close to the door with nothing but a low pile of logs in my front.
  • Extract from : « Border and Bastille » by George A. Lawrence
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