Crossword clues for leering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leer \Leer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leered (l[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Leering.] To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc.; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
I will leerupon him as a' comes by.
--Shak.
The priest, above his book,
Leering at his neighbor's wife.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. action of the verb ''to leer''. vb. (present participle of leer English)
WordNet
adj. showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
(of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys"
Usage examples of "leering".
Mr Leering, the smooth, grey-haired master of the drill, who seemed perpetually tanned from a trip to his holiday home in Ibiza, was fiddling about inside my mouth while subliminal baroque music tinkled on the cassette player and the blonde nurse looked on with well-simulated concern.
And the leering image of Agatha was all about him, already beginning yet another spell.
He could see the spiders leering down at him from their fifteen-foot height.
He hated this place, the chapel anteroom, with its sculptures of the Spider Queen leering down at him from every angle, and with Malice sitting-towering-above him from her seat of power.
Drow soldiers, walking posts along house walls or along the bridges connecting multitudes of leering stalactites, paused and regarded the lone stranger carefully, hand crossbows or poisoned javelins held ready until Dinin was far beyond them.
Drizzt allowed a break for supper—even lit a torch—and the two friends sat in a small natural chamber on a flat rock, surrounded by leering stalactites and monsterlike mounds of piled stone.
Those mounds, and a fair number of long stalactites leering down from the huge cavern's ceiling, were hollowed out and sculpted with sweeping balconies and walkways.
The barbarian came storming out of the tent then, leaving a horde of sputtering comrades leering out of the open flap.
It was uneven, with several different levels across its broken floor and gigantic stalactites leering down at them.
He'd seen them for what they were, and his mind had transformed them into something else, something demonic, the twisted, leering faces of Errtu's minions, slobbering over him with their acidic drool, nipping at him with their sharpened fangs and horrid breath.
I rang my dentist, Mr Lionel Leering, a practitioner whose company I manage to shun until the pain becomes unbearable, and he agreed to meet me at his Harley Street rooms at nine o'clock, so giving me time to get to the Old Bailey, where I was engaged in a particularly tricky case.
The other road was the way of escape, and once Mr Leering gave his evidence that, I know, would be closed to me.
Through his feet, Mhoram could feel the Keep moaning in silent immobility, as if it ached to recoil from the leering threat of those veins.
And when at last it made her see, forced her to behold itself, the leering disease of its source, she knew that she was ruined.
Once a great leering beast, twice the height of a 8 IRONHELM man, sniffed suspiciously and turned toward them.