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
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
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There is the ogreish dean who keeps his pristine daughter locked away in his gothic manse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As a matter of fact, they gnawed it in an ogreish fashion, and in such haste that they could scarcely stop to plunge their bones into the salt for a flavouring.
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.