leered

VERB

look at longingly

Synonyms

STRONG

eye eyeball gloat goggle ogle smirk sneer squint stare wink

Example Sentences

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While at carven dragon ships Floating o'er that silent sea, Squat-limbed gods with dreadful lips Leered and smiled mysteriously.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

And a swine-herd passed with his swine, Deformed; and I heard him growl; Two eyes of a sottish shine Leered under two brows as foul.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

Rubies ripped from altar cloths Leered a-down her rich attire; Her mad shoes were scarlet moths In a rose of fire.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval