ogreish
- adjective
- /ˈoʊɡərɪʃ/
- Offensive
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monstruoso
Examples
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In your world, every woman would be perfect, have farts that smell like strawberries, and be a model example of a mother and woman if it were not for an ogreish husband or man lurking behind the scenes.
Blog text (11) -
Martin explained his predicament to Mr. Ayala and began describing Goldschmidt in the most ogreish terms, appropriating as his own the ominous story he had been told about Goldschmidt never smiling and staring out windows.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the course of the novel, Tiffauges moves from seeking out children to photograph in his native pre-war Paris to the systematic tracking down of boys with whom he feeds the ogreish appetite of the depleted Wehrmacht in wartime Germany.
Academic text (1999) -
His ogreish personality makes it hard for anyone to befriend him.
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The film's villain was portrayed as an ogreish character who delighted in causing pain to others.
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The greedy businessman had an ogreish nature, always wanting more than he deserved.
Synonyms
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6.8
Causing great fear and shock, often like death or ghosts
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7.3
Very cruel and shocking, causing strong fear
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7.9
Being very cruel and evil and making others suffer
Antonyms
How Ogreish
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Etymology
Ogreish comes from ogre — the big, scary creature in fairy tales — plus the ending -ish, which means 'like'. So someone called ogreish behaves 'like' an ogre: greedy, cruel, and frightening.