had been leering

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of leer.
  leer

  verb (used without object)

  to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intent.

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