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Definitions
look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
Word origin
Exact development uncertain, but apparently from a verb *leer (“to make a face, look sideways”), from leer (“cheek, face, profile”).
Used in a sentence
“And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.”
“I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.”
“It was a quarter well stocked with deformed, leering, unkempt and uncombed idiots, who held out hands or caps and begged piteously.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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