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

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

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 Wharton, Edith