leering

Example Sentences

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And there’s the leering, preening Rupert Mannion from “Ted Lasso” — multimillionaire soccer team owner, inveterate philanderer and incurably vindictive divorcé.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

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 Washington Commanders have jettisoned the leering cruds who made up Snyder’s inner circle and replaced them with sober, empathetic professionals such as Jason Wright, and Snyder was fined $10 million.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022

But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien