How To Use Bogeyman In A Sentence
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Idly checking the state of debate among Eurosceptics, I was wryly amused to discover that the latest bogeyman is the European Gendarmerie Force, or EGF.
April Books 1) The Emperor's Babe, by Bernardine Evaristo
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Right now that bogeyman is too feeble to inspire fear.
What Goes Up Could Come Down: Stock-Bond Correlation
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But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman.
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Just as small children project their fear of the dark on to an imaginary bogeyman, the protagonists of the Western economies lay their fears at the door of the Iraqi dictator.
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One common one causing fright or dread was called in Yorkshire the boggart, in Scotland the bogle, and in England the bogey or bogeyman.
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A nation of namby pambies whining about every two-bit bogeyman is just a second-rate nation of Chicken Littles.
David Ropeik: The Word: Feariness
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Fear and hype surround radiation, which has become something of a bogeyman in part because of popular culture.
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We then watched Fungus the Bogeyman whilst stuffing ourselves with fruit pastilles.
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Simply put, the "feds" - as some sort of mythical foreign bogeyman - aren't out to screw us.
Archive 2006-10-01
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You may even need to see that old bogeyman who should be long gone in Shanghai - the backstreet money changer.
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It is being used as a bogeyman to ‘send messages’ that are even problematic for those of us who support civil liberties and economic development.
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From the Cuban missile crisis and the fear of a atomic cloud, to today's enduring mistrust of government, communism remained the country's bogeyman.
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For many in the green lobby, atomic power is the ultimate bogeyman, blighting landscapes and producing waste which is difficult to dispose of safely.
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This business of Iran being characterized as the bogeyman is all a smokescreen people!
U.S. military plans against Iran being updated
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By the time Sam sat down to share a cup of coffee with the famous badman at Rocky Ridge Station, he had comically inflated the real Slade into an outsized bogeyman for the purposes of underlining their argument over a last cup of coffee.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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By the time the bogeyman came for Moustapha Akkad, he had bigger fish to fry: mass slaughter not of stock types in hick burgs but of powerful and well-connected elites in Amman's Western hotels.
Moustapha, Messenger of Hollywood
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Bugaboo is from the archaic term bogy boo -- a term for a hobgoblin or anything that haunts, bothers, bugs, harasses, irks, annoys, or frightens, like the bogeyman.
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But if this holds, perhaps the real conclusion to be drawn is this: The one thing that really drives up voter enthusiasm more reliably than anything else is to have a bogeyman from the opposite party -- a figure that concentrates angst, fear, and loathing -- in the White House.
Dem enthusiasm down sharply since 2006, too
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Fear of artificial inflation remains the biggest bogeyman.
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The Bogeyman would never dare enter the kitchen.
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The trillion-pound bogeyman is also made of straw.
Hutton report: he's no friend of gold-plated pensioners
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When your kids are afraid of the dark or the bogeyman under the bed, the appropriate thing as a parent is to be sensitive to their fears but also not to panic yourself.
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Lumping men together as one massive evil bogeyman is not constructive.
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But why has the oil bogeyman become less scary?
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How did such a committed environmentalist as Helm become the greens' bogeyman?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bogeyman is not big on training aids, mainly because they require some type of training, but I recently came across a remarkable new gadget called The Gyro Swing.
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We have to bid farewell to our best friends - the giants, the fairies, Santa Claus and the bogeyman.
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Anyway, in the first keynote political speech of the year, she's reanimated the old bogeyman argument that earth's oil supply is about to run out.
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The term "bogeyman" seems to have come from the Welsh "bwg" spirit and the word "bug" was applied to insects because of the belief that insects were souls in search of rebirth.
WalesOnline - Home
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I dunno, is that really the bogeyman the fully insured republican congressman thinks it is?
Matthew Yglesias » NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine
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Nonetheless, I want to constantly acknowledge that the risk of the slippery slope isn't just some bogeyman - it's a reflection of real processes that occur in human institutions.
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It's become an iconic canvas onto which an entire generation projected its fear of the Other, a 1960s bogeyman.
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Consequently bogeyman excuses are co-opted to obtain sanction for this unethical abrogation of a natural right even more fundamental than liberty.
I, Pirate …
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Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman, one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it.
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Salt may be the culinary bogeyman but just look at the magic it does.
Times, Sunday Times
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Terrorism may have replaced the Devil as the bogeyman, but the same principle applies.
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The old values of community are reaffirmed while progress is forever the bogeyman.
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It's the moment in which fear is no longer the bogeyman under your bed.
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We have the means and enough reasons to blot this bogeyman out of existence.
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After all, salt is the culinary bogeyman.
Times, Sunday Times
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But just to do that makes you the bogeyman; the polluter.
Times, Sunday Times
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In communities where women had time to keep an eye out for each other's kids, for instance, mothers such as Sarah were not afraid to let their children out of their sight for fear of the bogeyman.
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The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
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The term "bogeyman" seems to have come from the Welsh "bwg" spirit and the word "bug" was applied to insects because of the belief that insects were souls in search of rebirth.
WalesOnline - Home
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I have traveled through Malaysia, China, Singapore, and Japan amongest others and when I heard the story about the Nigerian with a bomb in his underwear, I had to ask myself just how low would the government go to create a bogeyman.
OpEdNews - Diary: The Nigerian On Flight 253
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But some people really need to conquer their fear of this bogeyman that lurks in their psyches.
