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

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

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

He bent with an ogreish smile to look into her eyes.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie