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Definition of Leering
1. Adjective. Showing sly or knowing malice in a glance. "She had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"
2. Adjective. (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious. "Leering drugstore cowboys"
Definition of Leering
1. Noun. Action of the verb ''to leer''. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of leer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leering
1. leer [v] - See also: leer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leering
Literary usage of Leering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... thought and cleanly life As the priest, above his book leering at his neighbor's
wife. " Fill the cup and fill the can. Have a rouse lief ore the morn ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[paetus] n-itli a cast in the eye, slightly blink-eyed. paetus, adj., with a cast
in the eye, blinking, leering, H. paganas, adj. [ pagus ], of the country, ..."
3. Catalogue of books printed for private circulation by Bertram Dobell (1906)
"If any one was hardy enough to break through any decorum of old and established
repute; if anyone attempted to overreach his neighbour, or oast a leering ..."
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