How To Use Leering In A Sentence
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Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal-porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.
The Wrong Box
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He is a creeper who's dating a teenager, recording everything that takes place in his life and leering through windows.
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Great sheets of purple and gunmetal grey had appeared and the half-moon was leering down from behind a cloud.
DESPERADOES
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How could I forget that face, leering and grinning and nodding at me while Father raved on about iniquity and damnation?
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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But when she's escorting viewers around St Tropez on Summer Holiday, there's no sign of the leering ladette of the late-night schedules.
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leering drugstore cowboys
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He was always leering at female members of staff.
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Standing upon the lonely sea shore, Uriah recalled the swarthy, leering face of Sam Jones, recently punished for infraction of discipline, and the crooked smile of Martin, he who puffed everlastingly at his pipe and wore a red handkerchief for a turban and earrings of heavy gold.
The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country
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The other girl just shrugged and came a little closer, leering oddly at Kathleen.
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SO we go over, and on top of the pile is a movie whose box has a naked man from about the waste up, but with his hands conspiculously covering his schlong, and some chicks conspiculously covering his hands and leering at him all sexy and shit.
JOHNNY DEPP TO GET MANNLY?
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Lil is standing at the counter waiting to order, and in the background Paul is leering at her from the table he is sharing with David.
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He hovered over us, leering at our nubile young bodies, asking stupid questions and generally making us uncomfortable.
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In its fascination with girl-on-girl action, from longing glances and kissing to a climactic catfight that's less lurid than ludicrous, "Roommate" plays like the ultimate indulgence of leering Hollywood executives, eager to ogle pulchritudinous college girls and call it work.
'Roommate' movie review: Don't move in with Leighton Meester
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With a photocopied handout of a leering harlequin she explained the different shapes and colors that worked best.
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Hey, baby. Do you like what you see?" he said, leering.
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A group of men were standing on the balcony, leering at girls and making inappropriate comments.
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As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
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He whirled around to find an impossibly tall, cloaked figure leering ominously at them.
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Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered, staring and leering at the nude painting.
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We have seen him sneering and leering as he made his way round a drawing-room at an evening party, and bowing like a French perruquier to some absurd fool of a foreigner; and we have seen him, a minute after, holding up his head and cocking his chin in defiance, if an English voice approached.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Whez Lavastone, after killing the second guard, raced toward the king, ignoring the leering dragonhead looming over him.
Emperor of Ansalon
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The assassin possessively slid an arm around the woman when he noted a few men were eyeing the pair, many openly leering at Nicole.
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The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico's colonial city of Puebla are driven exclusively by women and don't stop for men. The cabs cater especially to those tired of leering male drivers.
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Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females.
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What wild beast, or what leering, shaggy soul; or what soul, crushed, like a rotten, worm-eaten mushroom, or heart resembling a begnawed dry bone?
A White Heart
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He was always leering at female members of staff.
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Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick, creeping hucksterism of contemporary life.
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Kayla lifted her head from its comfortable position on Landon's body to find Todd leering at her.
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I looked up and saw the face of my coach, leering at me.
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He turned slowly, expecting to see a legion of angry mermen leering down at him from behind pointed spears.
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Before long, the room is packed with leering men in large white towelling robes smoking blunts while 15 girls, in tight skirts and painfully high heels, circle the room, apparently offering the guests whatever they desire.
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I know she wasn't actually leering at me, in particular, but that's how it seemed.
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He stews through the night and into the next morning, refusing say goodbye when we arrive at my terminal, Andrew's buckteeth leering after me in the rearview mirror as the car pulls away.
What They Meant
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Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females.
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She raised her head in an absent manner, and eyed the leering man with clouded eyes.
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Outside the gallery a group of curious bystanders gathered, staring and leering at the nude painting.
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The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
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He stood there a while, leering drunkenly, until the woman noticed him and let loose a scream.
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Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females.
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In its fascination with girl-on-girl action, from longing glances and kissing to a climactic catfight that's less lurid than ludicrous, "Roommate" plays like the ultimate indulgence of leering Hollywood executives, eager to ogle pulchritudinous college girls and call it work.
'Roommate' movie review: Don't move in with Leighton Meester
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The less gentlemanly ones settled for leering at the so-called future duchess and congratulating Rafe by slapping him on the back.
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= Mephistoph´eles = (5 _syl. _), the sneering, jeering, leering attendant demon of Faust in Goethe’s drama of _Faust_, and Gounod’s opera of the same name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females.
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Wishing to keep her attention away from the man who was leering at her, Edmund struck up a conversation.
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As the wicked replicant, Helm's performance becomes a mesmeric facial anthology of wickedness: sneering, leering and winking.
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I don't think you would get away with a ‘Jesus Bar’ advertised by a leering Christ holding a chalice of wine.
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He put his arm round her waist and gave her a quick squeeze, glancing down at her breasts then leering to camera.
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Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.
The Wrong Box
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The film has unmasked Norman, and now he unmasks himself, to reveal the leering monster that lurked beneath all his personae.
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she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye
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The beautiful actress had her bust size reduced from a massive 34DD to a 34D because she was sick of men leering over them.
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Eric leaned against the row of lockers beside hers wearing an expression halfway between a leering grin and a snarl.
When Rose Wakes
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He shot up and saw the trespasser leering at him through the pane.
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Maybe he was," said her husband, leering; "but you needna cast it at us, for, my certie, if the men got it frae him in the forenoon, the women got it in the afternoon.
The Little Minister
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Sometimes you make out snakes, a belly dancer, a leering mouth.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Did you notice the sleaze ginzo leering at other women when they were at dinner?
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The walk was good and enjoyable even though she noticed the men leering at her as she turned down one of the back alleys.
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Ye daur meddle wi 'me," said Sandy, leering at him, for he had tasted deep of the national fluid.
The Kangaroo Marines
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He was always leering at female members of staff.
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Would you like your fortune spaed, sir?" asked my black friend, twitching his thumb in the direction of his wife, who was leering on me with a friendliness begot of the bottle.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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In the old people's home I was consigned for what seemed like an eternity to the day room - to a view of tatty armchairs, leering smiles, clawing fingers, and spittly remarks I could not understand.
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WITH their leering passengers and obstructive manoeuvring, stretch limousines are for many drivers a crime against taste, decency and sensible road use.
Times, Sunday Times
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I mumbled, reining my horse up beside Jack's, who was leering into the trees, ‘They won't hurt us will they?’
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Watching Andrew's leering ogle, Alaina once again lost her temper.
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It was a tall, grand old building of stone and steel, with ornate windows and gargoyles leering down at her from the ramparts.
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Many grotesque gargoyles with mysterious ochre stains around their mouths littered the castle's turrets and corners leering down at her.
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The one with his pants partway down yanks them back up and looks to his buddies – then back at me, initial surprise giving way to a leering distain.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum
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Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
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Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and a led captain and trencher-man of my Lord Steyne, was caused by the ladies to charge her; and the worthy fellow, leering at his patronesses and giving them a wink, as much as to say, “Now look out for sport,” one evening began an assault upon Becky, who was unsuspiciously eating her dinner.
Vanity Fair
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Even his book jacket photo polarizes: is that the Dark Prince leering mischievously into the camera, Andy Warhol on drugs, or a dashing rebel smiling beneficently as he prepares to smash the state?
April « 2007 « Bill Ayers
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She stood with her hands braced firmly on her hips, leering into the trees.
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For some reason, I thought Ed "Big Daddy" Roth had created the Weird-Ohs, those hot rod driving, goggle-eye, leering monsters clutching oversized shiftsticks.
Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
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I was thumbing through the mail this afternoon, innocently enough, only to be frightened by this evil, leering tree that popped out at me.
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BLOOM: _ (A charming soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and large male hands and nose, leering mouth) _ I tried her things on only twice,
Ulysses
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The invitation was plain, but not leering.
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His characters were cads, letches, and leering louses, but they effectively tapped a bit of that inappropriate urge in us all.
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The leering triumph on her captor's brutish features changed to a rigid mask of surprise.
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Turn on a television anywhere from Idaho to Irkutsk and there he'll be, still leering away and chasing squealing nymphets across drab stretches of suburban parkland.
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Men were standing around, swilling beer and occasionally leering at passing females.
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The leering triumph on her captor's brutish features changed to a rigid mask of surprise.
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The male models eyed them appreciatively, but to Aimée it looked like they were leering at her.
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And still it sat there upon its inky throne surrounded by inky superstition, leering over him with an evil smirk and waiting - waiting with all the patience of an imp or demon.
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If Müntze is a complex and very human Nazi, he's counterbalanced by the presence of his hulking, maniacally leering underling Franken (Waldemar Kobus), who's only missing a "stein" (the Jewish last name of the film's heroine, of course) to turn him into the monster he so clearly represents.
2/11: Black Book
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The Voyager clock comprises a half-moon of off-white plastic, with a delightfully forced-perspective ship leering out at you.
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Not the kind of lust filled leering but that which pseudo poshos use at art galleries when they're trying to comprehend how exactly a dirty bed can win the Turner Prize.
