Bete noire \B[^e]te" noire"\ [Fr., lit. black beast.]
Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bete noire
n : a detested person; "he is an anathema to me" [syn: anathema]
WordNet (r) 2.0
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "bete noire":
Dracula, Frankenstein, Mumbo Jumbo, Wolf-man, affliction, anathema,
bane, bogey, bogeyman, boggart, bogle, booger, boogerman,
boogeyman, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, bugger, burden, calamity,
crushing burden, curse, death, destruction, detestation, disease,
evil, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, grievance, harm, hate,
hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, infliction, monster,
nemesis, nightmare, ogre, ogress, open wound, pest, pestilence,
phantom, plague, revenant, running sore, scarebabe, scarecrow,
scarer, scourge, specter, succubus, terror, thorn, torment,
vampire, vexation, visitation, werewolf, woe
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anathema
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