What's the difference between leer and leet?

Leer


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To learn.
  • (a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
  • (a.) Empty of contents.
  • (a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
  • (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
  • (n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
  • (n.) The cheek.
  • (n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
  • (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
  • (v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
  • (v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
  • (2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
  • (3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
  • (4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
  • (5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
  • (6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
  • (7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
  • (8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
  • (9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
  • (10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
  • (11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
  • (12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
  • (13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
  • (14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
  • (15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
  • (16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
  • (17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
  • (18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
  • (19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
  • (20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.

Leet


Definition:

  • (obs. imp.) of Let, to allow.
  • (n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.
  • (n.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
  • (n.) The European pollock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps if people don't understand trolling, or have never heard of 4chan, or don't know their leet from their noob, they should be safely ignored.
  • (2) Photos of portreeves wearing the gold chain of office recall the status of this former parliamentary borough and of earlier manorial days when a leader was elected at the court leet each October.
  • (3) Some favourite nature words: aftermath the first growth of grass in a field after it has been cut (English, regional) coire high, scooped hollow on a mountainside, usually cliff-girt (Gaelic) didder of a patch of bog or marsh; to quiver as a walker approaches it (East Anglia) eawl-leet dusk, lit.

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