leer

Judge John Woosley ruled that in “ ‘Ulysses,’ in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.”

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025

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

Each feral snort and supercilious leer, each vaulted syllable of his chewy mitteleuropäisch accent, and each tremor of his predatory gestures plays to the intense concentration of Merhige’s pressing close-ups.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2019

This feminism is why I'm not particularly worried that this scene might read as permission to the men in the audience who want to leer at teen girls like creeps, which is always a concern.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2019

The mouth was a tortured smile, a leer.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

It was not, he wrote: “There were no leers, no smirks. This decorous group could have been standing in line at a church supper.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2016

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

She has also endured a filming where Donald Trump openly leered at her and another where she seems to suppress a flinch when her own husband touches her knee.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

It leered at Bertha and Mabel with a sloppy grin and cloudy blue eyes.

From Nature ● Aug. 28, 2018

His lopsided mouth leered more widely than ever.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

And there’s the leering, preening Rupert Mannion from “Ted Lasso” — multimillionaire soccer team owner, inveterate philanderer and incurably vindictive divorcé.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

But when she played the early solo cut “Money” too, a leering rap banger, she showed she’s always had this in her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025

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

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

“And yet,” he said, leaning toward me and leering, “when Adam plowed the earth and Eve spun, who then was the gentleman?”

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi