bogeymen
- plural of bogeyman.
Example Sentences
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But that angst can be projected onto bogeymen.
From Salon • May 8, 2023
In unflattering media coverage, the bogeymen comparisons veer from the Grinch to the Hood, the bald-headed, bushy-eyebrowed baddie from 1960s puppet TV series.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2022
Both are worldly, well into middle age, and both sense the need to explore their own catacombs and confront the bogeymen within.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022
The real-life Jewell endured a nightmare, but the cautionary tale that the movie inadvertently tells is about only being able to see ancient bogeymen as new monsters continue to emerge.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2019
“I rode hyenas after dark! I made chidoma, bogeymen, out of dead bodies! I caused Chipo to have twins! Augh! Augh!”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
