leer
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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
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
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
A lumpy-looking man with an odd lopsided leer gave a wheezy giggle.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Jim Morrison, now dead 46 years, leers, taunts and preens from every angle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2017
A sturdy wooden lectern is a central prop, and a giant bald eagle insignia, looking strangely lascivious, leers from the backdrop.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2014
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
The other man leers at me, and I just give him a flat stare in return.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
She leered at the fairies and glanced confidently at the towering demon.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
There was, in that handshake, a claiming, a leering, and for this she had always harbored a small dislike, but she had never told Blaine because she was also sorry about her dislike.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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