leer
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"Ahhh did Emmy pee her pants?" they leer.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
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
In focus groups, McCall’s advisers marveled at the kneejerk antipathy their opponent could generate — the pique, the entitlement, the smile that could slide into a kind of maniacal leer when it became too toothy.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
The films don’t leer at or condescend to their lead characters, who are treated with empathy—even Becky, who spends an abrasive hour-plus actively working against any such feelings.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2019
The mouth was a tortured smile, a leer.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
His tenor is white-hot, piercing through the orchestra, threatening to burst into flames as Hades, in his sleazy green leisure suit, leers at Eurydice and stretches the syllables of her name into a sinister design.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
Around the young people forms the winking, condescending conspiracy of gossip, a world that suspects pleasure and leers at beauty.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2013
He twinkles and leers with commendable grace, introducing his loyal cast of egocentric players as they take the stage to enact the story of love, betrayal and, just possibly, murder.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2012
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
She has also endured a filming where Donald Trump openly leered at her and another where she seems to suppress a flinch when her own husband touches her knee.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Or worse, he leered at it, encouraged it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
Lying to her family and leered at by the police, Alice has no option but to fend for herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
It leered at Bertha and Mabel with a sloppy grin and cloudy blue eyes.
From Nature ● Aug. 28, 2018
As it was Halloween, a cloud of live bats was fluttering around the enchanted ceiling, while hundreds of carved pumpkins leered from every corner.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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
There are T-shirts, phones, watches, furniture, clocks, slippers, tents, wallets, trading cards, eye shadow and roller skates with Garfield’s leering image.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
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 nuptials were a celebration that was kept from the leering eyes of the public.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
I saw them leering and laughing, and something clicked inside me.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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