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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
leering
    adj 1: showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run
           in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
    2: (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering
       drugstore cowboys"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         I will leerupon him as a' comes by.      --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

         The priest, above his book,
         Leering at his neighbor's wife.          --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Leering:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, levity, mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting
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