Leering
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
leering
adj 1: showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run
in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
2: (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering
drugstore cowboys"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Leer \Leer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leered} (l[=e]rd); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Leering}.]
To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive
expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc.; to cast a
sidelong lustful or malign look.
[1913 Webster]
I will leerupon him as a' comes by. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The priest, above his book,
Leering at his neighbor's wife. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "leering":
banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision,
derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling,
grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, levity,
mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery,
rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart,
smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking,
sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing,
twitting
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