- present participle of leer.
leering
Example Sentences
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That allowed host Chris Rock to join his fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum and pretend to be Zeta-Jones — the object of Sandler’s scripted leering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 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
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
Or will there be two waiting black Cadillacs, one with a leering look-alike?
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
