What is the meaning of leering?

verb

  • Look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression.
    • usage: "The men leered at the young women on the beach"

adjective

  • Showing sly or knowing malice in a glance. "she had run in fear of... His evil leering eye- Amy Lowell
  • Of a glance. ( sidelong and slyly lascivious)
    • usage: "leering drugstore cowboys"
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