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

Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Fr�ulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse.

From Time Magazine Archive

I really could not help thinking that these monsters of the deep possessed some such intelligence, as they swam around the fated barque—casting towards it their ogreish expecting looks.

From Ran Away to Sea by Reid, Mayne