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

But as time passed and the game progressed, Set’s face hardened and cracked into a wicked leer, and it became clear that his strange, sunken, formless body was the very shape of evil.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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

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

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

I leered in the rattling darkness of my tree.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Nor do they hover around the main action, loosing barbs of criticism or leering suggestively over their martinis or wistfully reminiscing about the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

There were no girls on the Slytherin team, who stood shoulder to shoulder, facing the Gryffindors, leering to a man.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling