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leering

7 letters · 6 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    showing sly or knowing malice in a glance;, Amy Lowell

    she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye

  2. verb

    look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression

    The men leered at the young women on the beach

  3. adjective

    (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious

    leering drugstore cowboys

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