boogeyman
boogie man , also: boogieman
bogyman BrE
bogeyman BrE
boogeyman AmE

"And you're not half the boogeyman we thought you must be."

He spoke in the Boogeyman voice, but it had changed.

Now maybe she'll believe me about the boogeyman in my basement.

He is the closest thing we have to a national boogeyman.

"You mean the entire program, not just the Boogeyman part of it."

"They created a boogeyman that never had anything to do with the bill," he said.

The Boogeyman forced worms into his mouth as a result.

For some, the boogeyman is already at the door.

A boogeyman to make people behave the way they want."

If the boogeyman was here, he would've nailed you in the shower.

Don't you have enough problems without worrying about the boogeyman?

All we ever learn about her is that her father once tried to face down the boogeyman.

The Boogeyman has been taking various children throughout history.

Now Jillian's account of the boogeyman is starting to make sense.

With the help of Data, he managed to break free from the Boogeyman.

Laura runs away in shock, and the Boogeyman attacks her.

Adults learn to overcome their fears; children never stop looking for the boogeyman.

Maybe the Boogeyman ordered it up special, a voice whispered from somewhere deep inside.

"Somebody's at the door," a Boogeyman said, and everybody jumped.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.

The film is a take on the classic "boogeyman", or monster in the closet.

Make sure your car starts and the boogeyman don't get you."

It must have worked, for the boogeyman didn't come.

It is the sequel to the 2005 film Boogeyman.

"What happens if the stupid boogeyman dares to show up in your dream?"

I he bogeyman did not need to do anything more to him.

But what did a child's bogeyman have to do with his problems?

It is human nature to want to name things, to put a face on the bogeyman.

That they'd just been using him as a bogeyman to keep her under control.

She felt like a little girl again, afraid of the bogeyman.

I keep looking for bogeymen and I'm not finding any.

Out here, he's a big bogeyman who's trying to start a war.

At last their is a new bogeyman Americans can hate.

What's the next bogeyman, will it be one of you?

I felt like a child who's afraid of a bogeyman under the bed.

Though I'll probably get some pressure to make up my mind and pick a bogeyman.

"You mean until you're sure there are no bogeymen waiting for me?"

He became a household name, a bogeyman of the western world.

These should not be the big bogeyman for business that they are often portrayed as.

For the bogeymen, it was a place to come out of the closet.

He is said to have been used as a bogeyman figure until at least the early twentieth century.

That was because like most children I had complained about a bogeyman under my bed.

You mean in case the bogeyman gets me?' she teased.

She'd never been afraid of bogeymen in the dark, not after living with the candy man.

I closed my eyes like a kid afraid of the bogeyman.

"Having you as a brother was like living with the bogeyman.

Grown men cannot have dialogue because the bogeyman is given his 5 minutes.

You have to get past the bogeyman to reach the phone."

"There's always been a bogeyman driving significant parts of their business strategy."

The Bushes have always been good at using bogeymen to their political advantage.