leer
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Judge John Woosley ruled that in “ ‘Ulysses,’ in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
He was similarly positive about the film's villain as Lyutsifer Safin, writing: "Rami Malek, with mottled skin, an all-seeing leer, and the caressing voice of a depraved monk, makes him a hypnotic creep."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2021
Each feral snort and supercilious leer, each vaulted syllable of his chewy mitteleuropäisch accent, and each tremor of his predatory gestures plays to the intense concentration of Merhige’s pressing close-ups.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2019
This feminism is why I'm not particularly worried that this scene might read as permission to the men in the audience who want to leer at teen girls like creeps, which is always a concern.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2019
The mouth was a tortured smile, a leer.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
There I sit as he leers a smile reserved for me, lecturing on the fine nuances of human behavior.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2018
Jim Morrison, now dead 46 years, leers, taunts and preens from every angle.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2017
A sturdy wooden lectern is a central prop, and a giant bald eagle insignia, looking strangely lascivious, leers from the backdrop.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2014
Mop-wigged Brent Hinkley romps, leers and honks a great Harpo.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
The other man leers at me, and I just give him a flat stare in return.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Or worse, he leered at it, encouraged it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
The cop walked up to us, leered at the camera’s LCD screen, and said, “Hey, that looks great!”
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2019
It leered at Bertha and Mabel with a sloppy grin and cloudy blue eyes.
From Nature ● Aug. 28, 2018
It leered from tactically naive Keegan to the European sophisticate Sven-Goran Eriksson.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2016
His large round face with its wide-set eyes leered down at me like a giant floating balloon that I’d seen in a Thanksgiving Day parade.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
But when she played the early solo cut “Money” too, a leering rap banger, she showed she’s always had this in her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
To add insult to injury, she describes John Eastman, another coup plotter, as flashing a "leering grin" while Giuliani manhandled her.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2023
He added it was a "privilege and honour" to be now playing the leering, flamboyant Emcee in "this incredible show".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
“The Idol” is gross and leering in the way the set reports suggested, but it’s also inept in a way that Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria” would not suggest.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
“Oh, this is interesting,” said Mr. Peckleman, rubbing his hands together and leering at the card in Marjory’s hand.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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