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leer

When you leer at someone, you look at them in a rude, sometimes threatening way. The word leer usually describes men looking at women in a sexual way that is not respectful. She stopped using the public pool because of the way people leered at her when she was in her swimsuit. Their bosses warned the female prison guards that they would have to deal with the male prisoners leering at them.

leer

A leer is a rude, threatening, sometimes sexual stare. He had a terrifying leer that made me afraid about what he might do.

leer

look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression The men leered at the young women on the beach a suggestive or sneering look or grin (= sneer) a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls

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