leer
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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
The filmmaking deserves credit for refusing to leer as the ladies convincingly kick and punch — all focus is on the stunts, not on sex appeal.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 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
“Pray,” said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, “whose likenesses are those?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
There I sit as he leers a smile reserved for me, lecturing on the fine nuances of human behavior.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2018
Jim Morrison, now dead 46 years, leers, taunts and preens from every angle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2017
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
Or worse, he leered at it, encouraged it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
The cop walked up to us, leered at the camera’s LCD screen, and said, “Hey, that looks great!”
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2019
Lying to her family and leered at by the police, Alice has no option but to fend for herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
It leered at Bertha and Mabel with a sloppy grin and cloudy blue eyes.
From Nature ● Aug. 28, 2018
As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
And there’s the leering, preening Rupert Mannion from “Ted Lasso” — multimillionaire soccer team owner, inveterate philanderer and incurably vindictive divorcé.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
At the gym, located in Garden Grove, Hansen says they were met with unwelcoming and leering stares before entering the facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
I saw the gunner’s face full in the light, his mouth curled into a leering grin, his eyes depthless and blank.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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