ogreish
- a word derived from ogre.
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
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
It is a ghoulish and ogreish idea, but it really seems as if the elder Milton quartered his progeny upon his debtors, as the ichneumon fly quarters hers upon caterpillars.
From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard
