ogreish
Example Sentences
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His physical description matched that of the ogreish man who had rushed out of her house shortly before she disappeared: He was 6-foot-4 and heavyset.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023
Even an ogreish salmon-boat captain, a bachelor again at eighty-seven, was convinced that we were both in love with him.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015
In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among other things, the company�long seen by Peruvians as an ogreish exploiter�was given new mandates to expand its activities and a $144 million tax write-off.
From Time Magazine Archive
His enemies made almost a monster of him, denouncing and fearing him as violent, rash, pugnacious, egotistical, ogreish in his mad, hatred of Capital, and Capitalists condemned him as hypocritical, cruel, lying, and vindictive.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by Thayer, William Roscoe
