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leer
1[ leer ]
verb (used without object)
- to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intent:
Go away! I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
noun
- a lascivious or sly look.
leer
2[ leer ]
adjective
- having no burden or load.
- faint for lack of food; hungry.
leer
/ lɪə /
verb
- intr to give an oblique, sneering, or suggestive look or grin
noun
- such a look
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Derived Forms
- ˈleering, adjectivenoun
- ˈleeringly, adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leer1
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Example Sentences
He is like you would imagine a young hipster Clark Gable would be and he's got a leer on him that won't quit.
"It is magnificent to be such a willing—" added Schliemann, sidling up to him with a dreadful leer on his face.
The captain closed one eye, and a leer of subtle cunning overspread his face.
Yezid grinned more savagely than ever; and Mary closed her eyes that she might not see his leer.
And by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.
"A girl with that beautiful face and form need never starve," returned the old miser, with a significant leer.
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