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Synonyms for ogre

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Synonyms for ogre

a perversely bad, cruel, or wicked person

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Synonyms for ogre

a cruel wicked and inhuman person

(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

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"I love the idea that Ogres live amongst us but we don't really notice them, and that they get obsessed with the items we throw away.
From thought-provoking pieces about coping with life to spiritual insights and inspirational reflections, Angels and Ogres is a gentle reminder of life's uncertainties, of courage, and (most of all) of the hope that can evolve from 'impossible' situations.
The ogre is stammering, meaning the end cannot be too far off.
The adventures of the jolly green ogre have been on a steady decline since the wildly imaginative 2001 original film, so it is to director Mike Mitchell's credit that this picture is arguably the best of the sequels.
The adventures of the jolly green ogre have been on a steady decline since the wildly imaginative 2001 original film so it is to director Mike Mitchell's credit that this picture is arguably the best of the sequels.
Now a domesticated family ogre and tourist attraction, Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is yearning for the old days when everyone was terrified of him.
Flying witches and towering ogres are basic stuff -- director Mike Mitchell (who worked on the storyboard of Shrek The Third) wantonly lets giddy heights and flying objects loose all over his screen for impact all along.
Sarah and Freddie get ready to tackle Spiderwick's ogres...using Mr Muscle; Jen gives it laldy in The Cottage
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To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2001: Levine contributes to our literature with modern fairy tales--ones that still have ogres, fairies, dragons, magical swords, boots, cloths, and so forth.
Nicolas Adrien Michaux Lion Knight Alexis Loret Maiden of the Chapel Laurene Cheilan Penelope Christelle Prot For viewers who take it lightly, "The Living World" is a funny, charming faux-fairy tale about ogres, knights and maidens; but it threatens to sport a hairy intellectual underbelly that only those well-versed in French culture can appreciate.
Capping this display of intolerance and ignorance, he said he wants to see an educational system available to all "where children of all kinds of religious, ethnic, and racial backgrounds can go to school together and grow up understanding that they aren't ogres, and one doesn't thrive upon drinking the blood of the other at religious festivals."
In the movie "Shrek," the ogre explains the complications of his circumstances by saying that "ogres have layers." I've started to apply the ogre's philosophy to the insurance issues arising from terrorism.
Chapter 7, "Significant Others: Ogres, Fools, and Forests," examines the central role of outsiders like ogres and fools, made emblematic by Basile's tale 1.1 "Lo cunto del l'uerco," in which an ogre aids the fool Antuono.