verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (at sb) to look or smile at sb in an unpleasant way that shows an evil or a sexual interest in them
noun an unpleasant look or smile that shows sb is interested in a person in an evil or a sexual way:
He looked at her with an evil leer.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for leer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does leer appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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