leer

leer1
verb
  1. [no obj.]look or gaze in an unpleasant, malign, or lascivious way
    斜睨，讨厌（或恶意、挑逗）地看
    bystanders were leering at the nude painting.
    旁观者斜眼看着裸体画。
    [as adj. leering]every leering eye in the room was on her.
    屋里每个人都斜着眼睛瞅她。
noun
  1. an unpleasant, malign, or lascivious look
    斜睨，讨厌（或恶意、挑逗）的目光
派生
leeringly
adverb
语源
  1. mid 16th cent. (in the general sense 'look sideways or askance'): perhaps from obsolete leer 'cheek', from Old English hlèor, as though the sense were 'to glance over one's cheek'
leer2
noun
  1. variant spelling of lehr
    同 lehr
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