bête noire

For a time Niki Karimi, the actor and director, served as the bête noire of the hardline media.

The most serious liberal opposition, though, came from the LGBT community, where Hagel was a longtime bête noire.

John McEnroe, his bête noire, wrote in his 2002 memoir, You Cannot Be Serious, about his first meeting with Connors.

Most recently, he redescribed his sleazy lobbying for conservative bête noire Freddie Mac as the work of a “historian.”

The White House decided to launch a formal campaign against its journalistic bête noire.

It had been our bête noire from the time five dollars and fifty cents ransomed it at Shasta.

Mr. Crosse was perfectly aware that Margery alluded to her master—his own bête noire since the explosion.

Thus a vase which will not hold water is technically imperfect and the bête noire of the conscientious potter.

Long before he died, the world had found in Max Reger its musical bête noire.

Dame Ashfield, the farmer's wife, whose bête noire is a neighboring farmer named Grundy.