leer

Meanings

Plural: leer, leered, leers

Noun

• a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
• a suggestive or sneering look or grin
• A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
• An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.
• The cheek.
• The face.
• One's appearance; countenance.
• Complexion; hue; colour.
• Flesh; skin.
• The flank or loin.
• Alternative form of lehr.

Verb

• look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
  • "The men leered at the young women on the beach"
• To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.
• To entice with a leer or leers.
• To teach.
• To teach.
• To learn.

Adj

• Empty; unoccupied; clear.
• Destitute; lacking; wanting.
• Faint from lack of food; hungry.
• Thin; faint.
• Having no load or burden; free; without a rider.
• Lacking sense or seriousness; trifling; frivolous.

Synonyms

absent, awanting, bereft of, clean, deficient of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, lacking, leer, ogle, robbed of, shorn of, sneer, stripped of, toom, unfilled, vacant, vacuous, vacuumlike, void, void of, wanting

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