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Usually means: Gazing with suggestive or lustful intent.
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  1. leering: Merriam-Webster
  2. leering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. leering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Leering, leering: Wordnik
  5. leering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. leering: Wiktionary
  7. Leering, leering: Dictionary.com
  8. leering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Leering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. leering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. leering: FreeDictionary.org
  12. leering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. leering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. leering: Rhymezone
  15. Leering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  1. leering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from WordNet (leering)

adjective:  (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious ("Leering drugstore cowboys")
adjective:  showing sly or knowing malice in a glance ("She had run in fear of...his evil leering eye- Amy Lowell")


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