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 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
The beast seemed so untouchable up there, as though it would always and forever lord its death leer over the city.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
When they first got together, she recognized the ease she felt being in public with him, no longer nervous about leers or snide remarks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
And she nodded at Wang Lung as she spoke and leered at him and he was sickened at her coarse face and he said hastily, “So be it, then.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
There are T-shirts, phones, watches, furniture, clocks, slippers, tents, wallets, trading cards, eye shadow and roller skates with Garfield’s leering image.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
One reason why is that Bon Jovi never seemed leering in the way that some of your ’80s hair-metal contemporaries did.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
"Did you hear that, Seligmann?" says one boy, leering.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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