How To Use Bugbear In A Sentence
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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
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Perhaps I should mention my bugbear is when zucchini are called courgette in English/Italian cookbooks ;
Zucchini Velouté
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Another bugbear of childbearing is the pregnancy bra - a hideous garment.
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Our only bugbear was in tightening the straps, which have a tendency to get stuck and take a few goes.
The Sun
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That's a real bugbear of mine.
The Sun
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In some ways life is a battle against these bugbears.
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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
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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.
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The M8's four lanes are regarded by hundreds of thousands of Scots as one of the biggest bugbears of their working lives.
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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
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Mermaids are supposed to abound in the ponds and ditches in this neighbourhood. Careful mothers use them as bugbears to prevent little children from going too near the water.
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Germany was always a bugbear for France
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GPs who refuse to treat patients with drug problems or refuse to put them on methadone are one of McCartney's biggest bugbears.
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My personal bugbear, though, is lack of choice.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a big bugbear at Dior.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maths was another bugbear; he slipped through the net at his comprehensive and could not catch up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once you reach security, paying for plastic bags to put your toiletries in is a real bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cosmetic surgery is another bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inflation is the government's main bugbear.
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Not a big bugbear, just a minor irritation with no consequences.
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Cooke insists the device will speed up the pace of play, one of the biggest bugbears in the increasingly popular sport.
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A car runs over the bugbear while the fae escapes and the goblin is tied up.
Dragon Wytch-Yasmine Galenorn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Did you dare, Eloise Evringham, did you _dare_ spoil your life -- my life -- our future, by scaring Dr. Ballard with that bugbear?
Jewel
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That old British bugbear of class hung over the affair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, the great bugbear ‘neo-liberalism’ was oft decried but never defined.
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My biggest bugbear on any holiday is trying to work out how to use the different shower systems.
Times, Sunday Times
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A police spokesman said: ‘We are hoping we can make some inroads because the damage these kids are causing is one of the major bugbears in the town.’
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Difficulties concerning preemption have proven to be the biggest bugbear for Lewis's theory.
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Although there was some grumbling among the marketmen, the provision stores were soon put through such a course of scrubbing and whitening as to make the old-fashioned "spring house-cleaning," which has been the bugbear of _pater familias_ and one of the chief assets of the paragrapher for so many years, a process of incomparably mild flavor.
A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day
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A particular bugbear for me is the red phone box.
Times, Sunday Times
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I agree with keeping coppers looking smart and unpolished boots and/or unironed shirts are a personal bugbear with me.
And for my next trick……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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My bugbear is wet towels on the floor.
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My bugbear is wet towels on the floor.
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My personal bugbear is neighbour disputes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He will remain a man for whom anodyne causes a headache and swiftly moves to another bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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To SOME people, few but vocal, Edward O. Wilson is a bugbear, infamous as the leading enunciator of a branch of science called sociobiology.
The Song of The Dodo
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One of these, Francis Moore, wrote: ‘A dreadful bugbear to the women is called Mumbo Jumbo, which keeps the women in awe.’
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Bugbear, another blended threat, spread through network shares but also logged keystrokes and functioned as a back door.
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His only real bugbear is that he doesn't get to play in England enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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In truth he was so afraid of assumptions and "anticipations" and prejudices -- his great bugbear was so much the "_intellectus sibi permissus_" the mind given liberty to guess and imagine and theorise, instead of, as it ought, absolutely and servilely submitting itself to the control of facts -- that he missed the true place of the rational and formative element in his account of Induction.
Bacon
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The food business is the biggest bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of his main bugbears is the foreign ownership of technology.
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I agree that Classic Monster revisited is a great fluff book (I particularly liked the bugbear) and would love to see more books like that.
Paizo’s Still At It! « Geek Related
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Poet Mary O'Donnell, for example, has suggested "poetess", "authoress", "hysterical" and "as a mother"; but to me, these are bugbear words and phrases rather than tripping-up ones – she's disturbed by the way they're used rather than confused by the act of reading them.
Which words disturb you?
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I have a 6 player game that gets hectic too and I find that a brief explanation that lets them know that the penny on the tiles is the bugbear, the quarter is the lich and the piece of tape is a wall solves a lot of problems for those who have been in la-la land for the 5 minutes leading up to the encounter.
Fourth “Empire of Ashes” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related
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Marie-Antoinette was a Habsburg, and thus from the moment of her arrival in France in 1770 the bugbear of the Richelieu-d'Aiguillon faction, which hated the Austrian alliance.
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Mormo was a female spectre, with which the Greeks used to frighten little children. Mormo was one of the same class of bugbears as Empusa and Lamia.
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The biggest bugbear is the cost of deliveries, followed by having to collect them at the post office.
The Sun
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In fact, loading times are a real bugbear in Total Club Manager but this is a problem for the PlayStation 2, not the game itself.
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Their main bugbear was the hefty fees they were paying to advertise properties on their sites.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bugbear of amalgamation is continually flaunted in the eyes of the people.
The Providential Significance of the Death of Abraham Lincoln
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Health and safety is another bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lack of accountability in this area has been one of my bugbears for a few years, so while welcome, it's very, very late in the day and seems to have been prompted by an IMC report.
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Directors said rising costs, new regulations and the difficulty of raising capital are the new bugbears.
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It's the same thing with phones - one of my personal bugbears.
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Youth nuisance is the main bugbear in this town and we are working hard to stamp it out.
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Paying 50% tax is big bugbear of mine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some frighten their children with beggars, bugbears or hobgoblins if they cry, or be otherwise unruly
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Their main bugbear was the hefty fees they were paying to advertise properties on their sites.
Times, Sunday Times
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The major bugbear for anyone involved with Hearts is the continuing problems with Tynecastle Stadium.
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Now making phone calls has become one of my bugbears.
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The trouble is that, unless he can get his squad in place early in the summer, Allardyce fears he could encounter the cold start problems that have been a major bugbear of the past two seasons.
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But music is my biggest bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as litter, the major bugbears identified by council tenants include vandalism and graffiti, which take second and third place in the council's league of perceived problems.
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This time our bugbear is the switch that allows you to alternate between playback, camera, movie modes.
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Another bugbear is alcohol duty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Point to this program, and a bevy of bugbears, from disaffected employees to muckraking journalists, will disappear.
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Most probably, but consistency has always been our bugbear so we must wait and see.
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But I shall leave those bugbears for another day.
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This seems to be a major bugbear of some guns, making them harder work than applying the adhesive from a tube.
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What is their biggest bugbear?
Computing
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Transfer pricing, or the way companies ferry assets such as intellectual property and services between tax jurisdictions and set a price for these services, is one of HMRC's biggest bugbears with business.
The most recent articles from Accountancy Age
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Braintree councillors are concerned the town is becoming choked with traffic since the new A120 opened and fear the problem is proving a major bugbear for local residents.
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Smoking is a particular bugbear of his.
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Here was a politician who looked like a teamster boss and sometimes behaved like one, but at least he talked sense about abolishing Washington's greatest bugbear of the cold war years.
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Another bugbear for novice gardeners is shape.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scourge of diving is a particular bugbear.
Times, Sunday Times
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A particular bugbear of name badges is when my name gets spelt incorrectly.
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