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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Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Fr�ulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He needed a shave—Yetsko always did, in the mornings—and in his leather Literates' guard uniform, he looked like some ogreish giant out of the mythology of the past.
From Null-ABC by Dongen, H. R. van