bugbear

How To Use bugbear In A Sentence

• The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
• Perhaps I should mention my bugbear is when zucchini are called courgette in English/Italian cookbooks ; Zucchini Velouté
• Another bugbear of childbearing is the pregnancy bra - a hideous garment.
• Our only bugbear was in tightening the straps, which have a tendency to get stuck and take a few goes. The Sun
• That's a real bugbear of mine. The Sun
• In some ways life is a battle against these bugbears.
• In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying. U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
• It is the plan of men of this stamp to frighten the people with ideal bugbears, in order to mould them to their own purposes.
• The M8's four lanes are regarded by hundreds of thousands of Scots as one of the biggest bugbears of their working lives.
• A harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying. Ryanair's O'Leary Offers England's Soccer Enemy A Bone