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LEERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leering mean?
• LEERING (adjective)
The adjective LEERING has 2 senses:
1. showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
2. (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
Familiarity information: LEERING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
Context example:
she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye
Similar:
malicious (having the nature of or resulting from malice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
Context example:
leering drugstore cowboys
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Context examples
And all this with such a sneering, leering, insolent face that I would have knocked him down twenty times over if he had been a man of my own age.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With those words, he retired, kissing his great hand, and leering at us like a mask.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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