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Bête noire

//bɛt ˈnwɑː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that is unbearable and so particularly avoided or disliked; the bane of someone's existence; an object of aversion; an anathema.

    "[A] petticoated politician was [Napoleon] Bonaparte's bête noire, or antipathy, […]"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bête noire (“(figurative) intolerable person”, literally “black beast”).

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