Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
showing sly or knowing malice in a glance;
- Example: "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell2.
(of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious;
- Example: "leering drugstore cowboys"
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.
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WordNet (r) 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"