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- noun Alternative spelling of
bogeyman .
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Examples
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The Muslim Brotherhood was alternatively viewed as the new Hezbollah or demoted as a falsely hyped bogyman.
Yael Swerdlow: The Eleventh Annual Herzliya Conference: The Balance of Israel's National Security Yael Swerdlow 2011
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The Muslim Brotherhood was alternatively viewed as the new Hezbollah or demoted as a falsely hyped bogyman.
Yael Swerdlow: The Eleventh Annual Herzliya Conference: The Balance of Israel's National Security Yael Swerdlow 2011
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And Fox is the perfect channel for everyone who loves the idea of America becoming like the red-states: a fossil-fuel binging; violence loving; gay bashing, racial hate embracing; science hating; God and guns and guts pushing; socialist bogyman fearing paradise for idiots.
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Second, Mr. Ghali points the bogyman under the Egyptian political bed - "fundamentalist mullahs, fomenting instability and allied with rogue regimes", i. e the Muslim Brotherhood -- to force international criticism turn a blind eye to continued human rights abuses.
Nadine Wahab: Egypt: Trendsetter for Democracy in the Mideast? Nadine Wahab 2010
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Second, Mr. Ghali points the bogyman under the Egyptian political bed - "fundamentalist mullahs, fomenting instability and allied with rogue regimes", i. e the Muslim Brotherhood -- to force international criticism turn a blind eye to continued human rights abuses.
Nadine Wahab: Egypt: Trendsetter for Democracy in the Mideast? Nadine Wahab 2010
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"And this perpetual harping on the ~saboteur~ as a bogyman produces an epidemic of denunciation which revolts me."
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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Like you can have him for breakfast, and feel belittled when your government tries to make a bogyman out of him?
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Second, Mr. Ghali points the bogyman under the Egyptian political bed - "fundamentalist mullahs, fomenting instability and allied with rogue regimes", i.e the Muslim Brotherhood -- to force international criticism turn a blind eye to continued human rights abuses.
Nadine Wahab: Egypt: Trendsetter for Democracy in the Mideast? Nadine Wahab 2010
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Either he wants to make Iran the bogyman to scare people into voting for him or else he is incompetent.
McCain Hits Obama's "Inexperience And Reckless Judgment" On Iran 2009
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Simply put, the GOP can't just keep voting against their citizen's interest in "safe seats" unless the democrats give them a bogyman.
Bonior Building Behind-The-Scenes Momentum For Openly Gay Union Activist as Labor Secretary 2009
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