Impolite expression

Usage examples of leer.

He stood staring at Argot with a defiant leer made hideous by the terrible wound.

In the shelter of the stairway, Chun Laro leered above an out-thrust gun.

If Althrop could have leered like that in life, he would have applied the grin to one person only: Dariel Grebb.

And when I saw that the reef was but the black basalt crown of a shocking eikon whose monstrous forehead now shown in the dim moonlight and whose vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes look at me after the slinking away of that leering and treacherous yellow moon.

Here, Soy Foon observed a shrewd, leering face - a countenance that betokened both stealth and swiftness.

February 1943, the Gauleiter of Bavaria, Paul Giesler, to whom the Gestapo had brought a file of the letters, convoked the student body, announced that the physically unfit males - the able-bodied had been drafted into the Army - would be put to some kind of more useful war work, and with a leer suggested that the women students bear a child each year for the good of the Fatherland.

He saw Gnar, the bandit with the broken knee, crawling slowly backward across the ground, while Zack advanced on him with his face split into a menacing leer.

The leering face that showed by light from the window was that of Goofer Shayne.

Old Gower, too, has his Religion of Nature, with free admission for women, whom he worships in similes, running away from them, leering sheepishly.

Once the grinning idol of Hoom, devil god of the Chac Yuul, had leered down upon the splendid hall, squatting like a huge, obscene toad atop the dais of many steps.

And now the claret-coloured background was turning into a red field -- a field of red flowers, from which leered Portunus, and among which wept Ranulph.

The snake man leered down at Balthor, its sloped forehead spattered with its own green blood.

Sometimes he would take walks through shadowy tangles of unpaved musty-smelling lanes where eldritch brown houses of unknown age leaned and tottered and leered mockingly through narrow, small-paned windows.

It was probably sheer irrational instinct which made us dim our single torch--tempted no longer by the decadent and sinister sculptures that leered menacingly from the oppressive walls--and which softened our progress to a cautious tiptoeing and crawling over the increasingly littered floor and heaps of debris.

On this eery pinnacle a squared circle was formed, and in a few moments the sardonic desert moon leered down upon a battle which, but for the quality of the ringside cries, might well have occurred at some minor athletic club in America.