leered

Example Sentences

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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

It leered from tactically naive Keegan to the European sophisticate Sven-Goran Eriksson.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2016

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