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Meaning of LEERING

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
  2. [adj]  (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys"
 
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 Synonyms: malicious, sexy
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, levity, mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting
 

 

 

 

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