leered
Example Sentences
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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
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
The whatever-it-was crawled out from between the ties and into the sun, where it crouched on its haunches and leered at us with an unbalanced smile, as if imagining how our brains might taste.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
