"leering" in the verb sense
1. leer
look suggestively or obliquely look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
"The men leered at the young women on the beach"
"leering" in the adjective sense
1. leering
showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
"she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
2. leering
of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
"leering drugstore cowboys"
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