(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.
Stare
Definition:
(n.) The starling.
(v. i.) To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object.
(v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors.
(v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
(v. t.) To look earnestly at; to gaze at.
(n.) The act of staring; a fixed look with eyes wide open.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(3) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(4) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
(5) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(6) He stares down Cain, and works the count full after laying off some tricky pitches outside the zone that were trailing away from the righty.
(7) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
(8) Or are we too immature to see what is staring us in the face?
(9) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(10) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(11) More than a third of children in Sweden's cities complain that their parents spend too much time staring at phones and tablet computers, leading doctors in the country to warn that children may be suffering emotional and cognitive damage.
(12) We’d get recognised when we went out, and I developed a bad crick in my spine because I was staring at the pavement so much.
(13) If someone you know from around the corner says it’s great, you get food, a roof over your head, you’ve got a radio and your friends can come and visit any time they like - it suddenly makes it a different picture.” Down on the seafront, Banjo Bai Koroma, the harbourmaster, stares out to sea, watching the Chinese fishing boats with little to do.
(14) What she should have said: An assertive interviewee would have fixed Paxman with a cold-eyed stare and said simply and unsmilingly: "No."
(15) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(16) No initial staring or postictal confusion was noted.
(17) No clear heart rate and respiration patterns were noted during staring.
(18) Seizures often occur in clusters, consisting of motion arrest, decreased responsiveness, staring or blank eyes mostly with simple automatisms, and mild convulsive movements associated with focal paroxysmal discharges, most frequently in the temporal area.
(19) I have just written one about 50 "great" books, the research for which involved staring at lines of words on pages until first the lines, and subsequently the pages, ran out, and then thinking about them until I knew what I wanted to commit to paper.
(20) He's staring into the middle distance, clearly trying to process what's just happened to him.