What's the difference between leer and sexual?

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.

Sexual


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (4) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
  • (5) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
  • (6) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
  • (7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (9) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
  • (10) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
  • (11) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (12) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
  • (13) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
  • (14) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
  • (15) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
  • (16) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
  • (17) There is evidence that some of these problems are being addressed as new research initiatives are being undertaken both nationally and internationally that are relevant to both AIDS and sexuality.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (20) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.