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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ogreish
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The gore may have felt too grotesque to shoot in live action using makeup and prosthetics, and potentially unbearable for some audiences to watch.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
6 June 2025 -
If, like for me, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 fairy tale about a girl who stumbles into Wonderland is a core memory, all those beloved characters are there, with a splendidly cogent (and at times delightfully grotesque) libretto.—
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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And as this process puts more space between those galaxies, the repulsive force only strengthens, speeding up the expansion of the universe.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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Anyone with an aversion to physical and mental torture will likely find Dangerous Animals a repulsive turnoff, but others with a taste for grisly violence should find something juicy to chomp on.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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But queerness hits differently in Richard Fleischer’s pulsing thriller, starring Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the monstrous leading couple and Orson Welles as their lawyer.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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King continued to dominate, finishing his freshman season at Florida with a monstrous 73 1/3 innings with 79 strikeouts and a 2.58 ERA.—
Jackson Castellano,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 June 2025
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But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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That in itself is a valuable tool for a defenseman: being able to skate the puck into the neutral zone and then make a clean first pass to get the offensive process started.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
1 June 2025
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But in a ceaseless offensive onslaught in the opening two innings on Saturday, things seemed to suddenly, profoundly and perhaps permanently change.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2025
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Committed health care workers, who by nature wish to first care and nurture those in need, find this especially repugnant.—
Roxey Nelson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2025
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The election results suggest that most Germans find these views, or the impulse to base a political party on them, repugnant.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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Castillo’s short novel is a giddy character study of an unpleasant young male type.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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To neutralize unpleasant smells, add a few pots of aromatic herbs, like rosemary and lavender.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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Looking up at the sky and seeing the moon turn red can be a frightful but also intriguing sight.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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After a serious heart issue – a 100% blockage in the widowmaker artery – and a frightful ambulance ride, Rogers started to take stock of his life.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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“Ogreish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ogreish. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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