leer 
leer (lir)
noun
a sly, sidelong look showing salaciousness, malicious triumph, etc.
Etymology: < ME lere, cheek < OE hleor: in sense “look over one's cheek, look askance”
intransitive verb
to look with a leer
Object
- face: For a moment, the rock seemed to hang in the shape of a leering face, but then it was gone.
- man: That explains the graffiti all over Berne, and the leering men.
- eye: Her black hair and dark violet eyes leered at Axel, scaring him beyond reason.
Preposition: at
- woman: Do not leer at women with low cut tops.
- me.: He leers at me. ) He actually said, " I'll bet you were thinking I'd NEVER get to you " .
- girl: Surely a beer to be drunk by old men leering at girls in the park.
Modifies a noun
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Modifying Another Word
- back: The CLAP Board leers back at Langdon, charmed like all CLAP Boards always are.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: A papier-mache punk leers down from a lofty vantage point on the wall, his V-sign frozen in time.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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