ogreish
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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
And yet "there was to this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, the skill with which Culwin had contrived to stimulate his curiosities without robbing them of their young bloom of awe seemed to me a sufficient answer to Murchard's ogreish metaphor.
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
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