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leer

/leer/US // lɪər //UK // (lɪə) //

征求意见,征求意见者,征求意见稿

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lascivious or sly look.

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Examples

  • Seven women have gone public with descriptions of creepy behavior — unwanted touching, leering looks, sexually loaded commentary — for which the governor was forced to apologize, although he maintains it was “unintentional.”

  • He told me he’d become painfully aware of “his leer” on Zoom meetings, so he did his best to smile and not talk with his mouth full — awkward on any date, but even more off-putting over video chat.

  • He is like you would imagine a young hipster Clark Gable would be and he's got a leer on him that won't quit.

  • "It is magnificent to be such a willing—" added Schliemann, sidling up to him with a dreadful leer on his face.

  • The captain closed one eye, and a leer of subtle cunning overspread his face.

  • Yezid grinned more savagely than ever; and Mary closed her eyes that she might not see his leer.

  • And by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.

  • "A girl with that beautiful face and form need never starve," returned the old miser, with a significant leer.