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• v  look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
• s  showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
  she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
• s  (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
  leering drugstore cowboys

• The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke.
• The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering.
• Along partisan lines, men attack the movie as a male-bashing feminist screed, in which they are portrayed as leering, overbearing, violent swine who deserve what they get, from a .

• leer

News & Articles

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• Police detain man accused of lunging at kids in Ballard park
  Police have identified and detained a man who some parents say was leering at kids and lunged at two of them at Ballard's Salmon Bay Park Monday evening.
  July 10, 2013 - KOMO Seattle

Quotes

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• Orrin Hatch in NewsFactor Network
  Adults who corrupt or exploit the innocence of children are the worst type of villains. In Oliver Twist, Fagin and Bill Sikes profited by inducing children to steal,Senator Hatch said. "In the film Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, the leering...
• Anne Reid in Glasgow Daily Record
  Anne said: "I played a Puritan maid and Benny was leering at me and fancying me, and eventually my skirt came off and I was left standing in a pair of bloomers."
• Richard Dawkins in Independent
  Last week, Dawkins called the Pope a "leering villain in a frock" in the Washington Post and said his first instinct was to cover up scandal.