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Definition of bête noire in English: bête noirenounPlural bêtes noires beɪt ˈnwɑːbɛt ˈnwɑː A person or thing that one particularly dislikes. 令人讨厌的人（或事物） great-uncle Edward was my father's bête noire Example sentencesExamples - Overnight, he became a bête noire, a disreputable demagogue giving the country a bad name abroad.
- Mathematics was my bête noire throughout most of my schooldays.
- By what right does an affluent nation of meat-eaters and leather consumers feel free to pick on dirt-poor, conflict-riven and predominately vegetarian Nepal as a bête noire?
- Finally, of course, there's my old bête noire - the mysterious woman behind BT's 1571 answering service. Good heavens, but she's got mean recently, hasn't she?
- But at home, opinion has become more polarised; for many he is a hero, for some he has become a bête noire, a target of hate.
- Even as media are available on a scale once unheard of, the industry is also increasingly vulnerable to piracy, the bête noire of today's media honchos.
- The proposed superhospitals have long been the bête noire for the Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice, a non-profit group of doctors advocating for a better public health-care system.
- The group which he brought together in January 1979 at a Theory Conference provided most of the prominent writers of the democratic movement thereafter, and most of the bêtes noires of the conservative veterans.
- But he evades the fact that most of these Northern codes were repealed by the end of the Civil War - and that the ones still on the books were nullified by the 14th Amendment, his bête noire.
- ‘I don't want to be their bête noire,’ he insists.
- His cultivated image as an uncouth spokesman for India's rural lower castes has long made him a convenient bête noire for the BJP's core middle-class, upper-caste constituency.
- It's Canada's densest area at 10 times the city average (about 35,000 per square kilometre) and a bête noire for density critics.
- Cars were also his bêtes noires: although he owned a car at one time, he never fully mastered the art of driving.
- The New York Times has suddenly become the bête noire of conservative columnists on both sides of the Atlantic.
- As we'll see, this is the case with Fox, the bête noire of many media concentration activists.
- Many of our current bêtes noires are the features we overlook or even admire in other languages.
- To this point, we have been having a little innocent fun at the expense of any Anglophone's favourite bêtes noires, the French.
- Fifth, we know that when push comes to shove, all the grand talk about international norms is often just a cover for opposing the global elite's bêtes noires of the moment.
- The bête noire of the anti - 4x4 lobby, Hummers have so far left the United States in only small numbers.
- Social obligations are my bêtes noires, necessary evils that I too eagerly create, often enjoy, but nearly always dread.
Synonyms bugbear, pet hate, pet aversion, anathema, abomination, bogey, bugaboo a thorn in one's flesh/side, the bane of one's life
OriginFrench, literally 'black beast'. Rhymesaargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah Definition of bête noire in US English: bête noirenoun A person or thing that one particularly dislikes. 令人讨厌的人（或事物） great-uncle Edward was my father's bête noire Example sentencesExamples - His cultivated image as an uncouth spokesman for India's rural lower castes has long made him a convenient bête noire for the BJP's core middle-class, upper-caste constituency.
- The proposed superhospitals have long been the bête noire for the Coalition of Physicians for Social Justice, a non-profit group of doctors advocating for a better public health-care system.
- It's Canada's densest area at 10 times the city average (about 35,000 per square kilometre) and a bête noire for density critics.
- Overnight, he became a bête noire, a disreputable demagogue giving the country a bad name abroad.
- As we'll see, this is the case with Fox, the bête noire of many media concentration activists.
- Many of our current bêtes noires are the features we overlook or even admire in other languages.
- By what right does an affluent nation of meat-eaters and leather consumers feel free to pick on dirt-poor, conflict-riven and predominately vegetarian Nepal as a bête noire?
- Fifth, we know that when push comes to shove, all the grand talk about international norms is often just a cover for opposing the global elite's bêtes noires of the moment.
- Cars were also his bêtes noires: although he owned a car at one time, he never fully mastered the art of driving.
- But at home, opinion has become more polarised; for many he is a hero, for some he has become a bête noire, a target of hate.
- The New York Times has suddenly become the bête noire of conservative columnists on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Mathematics was my bête noire throughout most of my schooldays.
- Even as media are available on a scale once unheard of, the industry is also increasingly vulnerable to piracy, the bête noire of today's media honchos.
- ‘I don't want to be their bête noire,’ he insists.
- The bête noire of the anti - 4x4 lobby, Hummers have so far left the United States in only small numbers.
- But he evades the fact that most of these Northern codes were repealed by the end of the Civil War - and that the ones still on the books were nullified by the 14th Amendment, his bête noire.
- Finally, of course, there's my old bête noire - the mysterious woman behind BT's 1571 answering service. Good heavens, but she's got mean recently, hasn't she?
- To this point, we have been having a little innocent fun at the expense of any Anglophone's favourite bêtes noires, the French.
- The group which he brought together in January 1979 at a Theory Conference provided most of the prominent writers of the democratic movement thereafter, and most of the bêtes noires of the conservative veterans.
- Social obligations are my bêtes noires, necessary evils that I too eagerly create, often enjoy, but nearly always dread.
Synonyms bugbear, pet hate, pet aversion, anathema, abomination, bogey, bugaboo
OriginFrench, literally ‘black beast’. |