Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sly, immodest, leering way; with a leer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a leering manner.

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  • adverb In a leering manner.

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Examples

  • I've been forced to watch quite a few of those with my wife, most of them aren't nearly as sloppy and misogynistic most of the men get quick and/or noble deaths, most of the women get long and leeringly graphic 'awesome' demises as this one.

    Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: The 'Worst' Films of the Year Scott Mendelson 2011

  • I've been forced to watch quite a few of those with my wife, most of them aren't nearly as sloppy and misogynistic most of the men get quick and/or noble deaths, most of the women get long and leeringly graphic 'awesome' demises as this one.

    Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: The 'Worst' Films of the Year Scott Mendelson 2011

  • I've been forced to watch quite a few of those with my wife, most of them aren't nearly as sloppy and misogynistic most of the men get quick and/or noble deaths, most of the women get long and leeringly graphic 'awesome' demises as this one.

    Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: The 'Worst' Films of the Year Scott Mendelson 2011

  • And Palin's first, instinctive, most characteristic response has been to leeringly imply the author's temptation to pedophilia, to send hubby over to act (in McGinnis 'words) "increasingly hostile," and then to complain as though she is being ill-used.

    Ellis Weiner: The Stupidity of Sarah Palin, Part 32,459 2010

  • And Palin's first, instinctive, most characteristic response has been to leeringly imply the author's temptation to pedophilia, to send hubby over to act (in McGinnis 'words) "increasingly hostile," and then to complain as though she is being ill-used.

    Ellis Weiner: The Stupidity of Sarah Palin, Part 32,459 2010

  • Fevriere leaned toward her even so, lowering his voice almost to a whisper, and she heard Case laugh leeringly, as if they were two kids caught in a clinch in the back of a car.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • She had a running and highly personal vendetta with Bonaparte, who hated bluestockings and once leaned over and remarked leeringly on her plunging cleavage: "No doubt, Madame, you breast-fed your children."

    The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

  • Senator Gerald Nye of South Dakota reeled off the obviously Jewish names of the studio executives, leeringly suggesting that their Eastern European and Jewish heritage made them subject to dangerous "racial emotions" and compromised their patriotism and loyalty to the United States.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Chablis gets to shine in the movie's one surefire scene, when she leeringly misbehaves at a black debutante ball.

    Southern Discomfort 2008

  • In opposition to the leadership of the elite, which stands leeringly over the dying American corpse, there is another leadership rising-up, the researchers and writers who are exposing and resisting the corrupted power structure.

    Unimaginable Intentional Human Suffering 2008

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