leer

My remarks moved an apoplectic plaintiff’s lawyer to point across the room at his opposing counsel, leer in my direction, and ask, “So are you accusing me of colluding with him?”

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022

The dominant smile is layered in meaning; it’s an expression associated with feelings of superiority and pride but still more friendly than a frown or a leer.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 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

“New laws for each new form, of course. New lines of potential. Complexity beyond complexity, accident on accident, until—” His leer was like icy wind.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021

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

But the leers and hostility from the outside world had soured me on that plan, and the thought of living alone left me cold.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

The cop walked up to us, leered at the camera’s LCD screen, and said, “Hey, that looks great!”

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2019

It leered at Bertha and Mabel with a sloppy grin and cloudy blue eyes.

From Nature ● Aug. 28, 2018

The creature leered, as though it could hear his thoughts.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The faces leering out at her from behind the shields and spears of the Poor Fellows seemed twisted, monstrous, hideous.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin