boogeyman

Noun

Meaning

an imaginary monster used to frighten children

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The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman. Sergio Aragones

We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal. Richard Louv

"A common boogeyman today is the fossil-fuel industry," he writes. Source: Internet

In literally the last paragraph of the novel, he comes to understand that they are the inheritors of the earth, they are the new normal, and he is boogeyman, the remorseless monster who stalks their dreams and haunts their waking existence. Source: Internet

"As I’ve said before, this does not have to be the boogeyman under the bed that scares everybody to death. Source: Internet

For folks like me who work in public health, these ads are like an HIV prevention boogeyman. Source: Internet

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