leer

Guys leer at us suspiciously as I pull out my composition notebook to interview Denis about his latest experience in Green Haven, but they keep their distance.

From Slate ● May 19, 2025

"Ahhh did Emmy pee her pants?" they leer.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022

He was similarly positive about the film's villain as Lyutsifer Safin, writing: "Rami Malek, with mottled skin, an all-seeing leer, and the caressing voice of a depraved monk, makes him a hypnotic creep."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2021

Instead, she says, the website hosted two more copies, so hundreds of thousands of people could leer at this most mortifying moment of her life, preserved forever as if in amber.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Jim Morrison, now dead 46 years, leers, taunts and preens from every angle.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2017

Around the young people forms the winking, condescending conspiracy of gossip, a world that suspects pleasure and leers at beauty.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013

He twinkles and leers with commendable grace, introducing his loyal cast of egocentric players as they take the stage to enact the story of love, betrayal and, just possibly, murder.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2012

Mop-wigged Brent Hinkley romps, leers and honks a great Harpo.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

“You know what my father always says, Todd Hewitt?” he leers up at me.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

She has also endured a filming where Donald Trump openly leered at her and another where she seems to suppress a flinch when her own husband touches her knee.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

The home fans leered at every tackle and roared their men on, and the Edinburgh side responded well with a glut of first-half chances, but were profligate and hesitant in the final third.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022

Or worse, he leered at it, encouraged it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021

Teachers leered at her: “You’re the girl who was dating G.M., aren’t you? I’ve read all his books. I’m a big fan.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021

Sigurd’s ghost leered at her from the back of her mind.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

That allowed host Chris Rock to join his fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum and pretend to be Zeta-Jones — the object of Sandler’s scripted leering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

To add insult to injury, she describes John Eastman, another coup plotter, as flashing a "leering grin" while Giuliani manhandled her.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2023

He added it was a "privilege and honour" to be now playing the leering, flamboyant Emcee in "this incredible show".

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023

“The Idol” is gross and leering in the way the set reports suggested, but it’s also inept in a way that Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria” would not suggest.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

‘It was an orc-weapon,’ he said, holding it gingerly, and looking with disgust at the carved handle: it had been shaped like a hideous head with squinting eyes and leering mouth.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien