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

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

The manners of this Poltergeist are in keeping with her rough entrance on the scene; her ogreish appetite is not satisfied even when she had devoured his hounds, his hawks, and his steed.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John