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Adjective leering has 2 senses

leering - showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
Antonym: unmalicious (indirect, via malicious)
leering - (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys"
Antonym: unsexy (indirect, via sexy)

Verb leer has 1 sense

leer - look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression; "The men leered at the young women on the beach"
--₁ is one way to look

Derived forms: noun leer₂, noun leer₁
Sample sentences:
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