Translation of "bête noire" to English

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Dictionary translations for "bête noire"

la bête noire f noun

pl. bêtes noires

pet peeve

Contexts with "bête noire"

Plus bête un enfant est, plus mignon il semble à ses parents. The more foolish a child is, the cuter he seems to his parents.

Une obscurité noire est un exemple de pléonasme. A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.

Je ne suis pas aussi bête que tu le penses. I'm not as stupid as you think I am.

Assise dans son fauteuil en peau de panthère, la jeune femme en lingerie rouge lisait à haute voix un livre intitulé « La princesse noire ». Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".

Je suis trop bête... J'essaie de t'expliquer des choses que je ne comprends pas moi-même. I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.

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