What's the difference between leer and leper?

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.

Leper


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected with leprosy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Supporting this opinion, the author reports his observations at Madagascar, where no leper of the leper-houses of Madascar center, a plague focus still to-day but very active between 1922 and 1936, contracted plague.
  • (2) The reason is that both are key members of David Cameron's Eurosceptic caucus in the European parliament and the sort of people whom David Miliband, the foreign secretary, says make him sick: political lepers who should not be seen in civilised company because of their views on the second world war.
  • (3) He felt, he said later, “like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor”.
  • (4) The data obtained should be considered during therapy of lepers to predict and control an unfavorable complication like specific polyneuritis.
  • (5) This rapid examination is particularly valid during neurologic investigation of the hand in lepers in countries where this disease is endemic, and it forms part of the 10 tests that the author has selected for exploration, within 2 or 3 minutes, in a standing patient, of the facial, ulnar, median, superficial peroneal and posterior tibial nerves.
  • (6) The relevance of these findings to previous studies of the children of lepers in India is discussed.
  • (7) Black and Morgan claimed they were treated like lepers as a result of their sexuality.
  • (8) He thinks that lepers' death was secondary to that of the monks who, at this time, cared for these outcases, and thanks to their self-sacrifice permitted these lepers' survival.
  • (9) He looked out at the admiring eyes trained on him on Sunday night (the room was considerably more rammed than it had been eight years previously) before heading to the champions' dinner in a flash London hotel he would probably avoid as if it were a leper colony on any other occasion, and he said thanks.
  • (10) A study of 260 male patients in the Alexandria leper colony showed that 15% of them had uni- or bilateral perception deafness.
  • (11) "It is like we were treated as lepers in the worst possible way."
  • (12) The highest prevalences were observed in female prostitutes (7.4%), patients with neurologic syndromes (5.8%), and lepers (13.7%).
  • (13) It is both the old, sadly familiar experience of plague and disease, of lepers isolated as unclean, of smallpox decimating the American Indians, of a Black Death sweeping medieval Europe, of the 1918 influenza.
  • (14) Lemur macaco macaco from Ambanja region was found polyparasitized by four different species of Plasmodium: --Plasmodium coulangesi recently described by lepers et al.
  • (15) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
  • (16) He grew up in the village of Green Hill Quarry near the Yila Mission, an American Baptist mission hospital and leper colony, according to a lifelong friend and former neighbor, Thomas Kwenah.
  • (17) The stigma surrounding it contributed, throughout the times, to make the "leper" identified as someone who brought with him danger and death, justifying discriminatory procedures.
  • (18) The establishment, instead, of an isolated leper colony at the run-down plantation at Carville, 85 miles up-river, was the result of community indifference, misunderstanding of the nature of the disease, and expected depreciation of property values.
  • (19) Advice have been taken exactly in the leper villages in which the attendance rate is of 98%; this rate varies between 47 to 70% in the all-purpose dispensaries.
  • (20) The author disproves the opinion of those who think that lepers died from plague.

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