Leering
[lɪərɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; 'she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye'- Amy Lowell .
(adj.) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; 'leering drugstore cowboys' .
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leer
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Examples
- He undid it slowly, leering and laughing at me, before he began to turn them over, and threw it there. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And he jumped on the bus, and I saw his ugly face leering at me with a wicked smile to think how he'd had the last word of plaguing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Get away, said Jos Sedley, quite pleased, and leering up at the maid-servant in question with a most killing ogle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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