leer
verb (used without object)
to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intent.
is leering
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present progressiveof leer (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I positioned it so it looks like he is leering at Edward.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
"I guess you're right," he admitted, "but, I declare, it makes me mad the way that big brute is leering up at me."
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson
Down Albert's riven streets the moon is leering; The Hanging Virgin takes its bitter ray; And all the road from Hamel I am hearing The silver rage of bugles over Bray.
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
