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leer

noun as in longing look

verb as in look at longingly

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In addition to parading on the streets as an effigy whose destruction delighted audiences, he leered from political cartoons and prints.

Seven women have gone public with descriptions of creepy behavior — unwanted touching, leering looks, sexually loaded commentary — for which the governor was forced to apologize, although he maintains it was “unintentional.”

He told me he’d become painfully aware of “his leer” on Zoom meetings, so he did his best to smile and not talk with his mouth full — awkward on any date, but even more off-putting over video chat.

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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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leer, such as: eye, eyeball, gloat, goggle, ogle, and smirk.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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