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Adjective: leering  leer-ing
  1. Showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
    "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"
     
  2. (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
    "leering pharmacy cowboys"
Verb: leer  leer
  1. Look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
    "The men leered at the young women on the beach"

See also: malicious, poisonous, sexy [informal], venomous, vicious, viperous

Type of: look

Encyclopedia: Leering

Leer, South Sudan