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"Ahhh did Emmy pee her pants?" they leer.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 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

The films don’t leer at or condescend to their lead characters, who are treated with empathy—even Becky, who spends an abrasive hour-plus actively working against any such feelings.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2019

The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018

“Pray,” said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, “whose likenesses are those?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

Around the young people forms the winking, condescending conspiracy of gossip, a world that suspects pleasure and leers at beauty.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013

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

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

The final shot is one of the most foreboding in Hollywood history, with Nazis in uniform reflected in the cabaret’s distorted mirror, leering from the VIP seats at the front of the stage.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025

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

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

He sat across from Antinous while more ghosts crowded around, leering as if they expected to see a particularly vicious arm-wrestling contest.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan