Thesaurus / ogre
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She challenges the notion that wetlands are purely unpleasant or disturbing — think Shrek’s swamp, where only an ogre would want to live, or the Swamps of Sadness in The Neverending Story that swallow up Atreyu’s horse.
‘FEN, BOG & SWAMP’ REMINDS READERS WHY PEATLANDS MATTERANNA GIBBSSEPTEMBER 27, 2022SCIENCE NEWSA few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre.
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZACAnd I understood how it had come to pass that our hulking old ogre had fallen in love with her so desperately.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEAnd we left our nervous ogre and our poor little elf to fight out between themselves whatever battle they had to fight.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEThere she silently wept herself to sleep and her dreams were filled with visions of that dreadful ogre, Bonaparte.
NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBORHELEN LEAH REEDThe catch is often very good, and the boats come back to the huts laden with the ogre fish, destined to be eaten in their turn!
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLDG. E. MITTONHe had appeared to her in those dreams as an ogre—a monster too awful to live.
SUE, A LITTLE HEROINEL. T. MEADEDid you not know that I am that royalist ogre's future son-in-law?
THE BRONZE EAGLEEMMUSKA ORCZY, BARONESS ORCZYThere is no time for red-tapeism now with that ogre at our gates.
THE BRONZE EAGLEEMMUSKA ORCZY, BARONESS ORCZYAs for the ogre—if he won't appear in person, I'll try and survive the rest.
THE DIAMOND COTERIELAWRENCE L. LYNCHWORDS RELATED TO OGRE
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
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