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
Silence was ugly, it was black, it leered, it was cancerous, it was death.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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