What's the difference between leer and sideways?

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.

Sideways


Definition:

  • (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (2) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (3) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
  • (4) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
  • (5) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
  • (6) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (7) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
  • (8) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
  • (9) But when Davie went to BBC Worldwide, via a few months as acting director general, the job went to Helen Boaden , moved sideways out of BBC News last year in the wake of the Savile scandal.
  • (10) The role of retinal Müller cells in spatial buffering is considered quantitatively: both buffering to the tissue surface and buffering sideways through cell-to-cell connections.
  • (11) ), aggressive episodes (offensive sideways posture and attack bite) were significantly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (12) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
  • (13) Also, proper douching that directs liquid sideways, not toward the cervix, should further reduce risk, It is underscored that contraceptive efficacy is not an effectiveness rate, but a failure rate.
  • (14) It was easy to detect their frustration during the first half and there was no shortage of chuntering whenever the ball went sideways or back.
  • (15) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (16) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
  • (17) Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.
  • (18) The football administrator Brian Marwood, previously in charge of recruitment, has been moved sideways to become the managing director of the club's academy in a move overseen by City's new chief executive, Ferran Soriano, who worked with Begiristain at the Camp Nou.
  • (19) The sideways looks in predominantly white areas suggesting your presence there is beyond the norm.
  • (20) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.