leering Synonyms
Strongest:
- bawdy
- unprintable
- ribald
- obscene
- locker-room
- filthy
- smutty
- indecent
- pornographic
- dirty
- stag
- raunchy
- lascivious
- lewd
- suggestive
- warm
- prurient
Strong:
- gutter
- spicy
- vulgar
- nasty
- crude
- off-colored
- off-color
- x-rated
- unpublishable
- naughty
- gamy
- gross
- salty
- coarse
- off
- barnyard
- risqu-
- blue
- racy
- porny
Weak:
Strongest:
- innocuous
- innocuous
- decent
- inoffensive
- prudish
- puritanical
- puritanical
- decent
- victorian
- clean
- prudish
- inoffensive
- clean
- victorian
Strong:
- g-rated
- proper
- polite
- staid
- polite
- seemly
- correct
- nice
- respectable
- nonobscene
- correct
- g-rated
- priggish
- prim
- seemly
- staid
- decorous
- nonobscene
- genteel
- genteel
- respectable
- straitlaced
- proper
- prim
- decorous
- nice
- priggish
- straitlaced
Weak:
leering Meaning
leering (s)
showing sly or knowing malice in a glance
(of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious
leering (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Leer
leering Sentence Examples
- The creeper was leering at the school children as they walked by.
- The man's leering grin made the children feel uncomfortable.
- The villain had a leering smile on his face as he approached the protagonist.
- The monster's leering eyes followed the group as they tried to escape.
- The ghost's leering visage haunted the dreams of the living.
- The ghoul's leering stare sent chills down the spine of the onlookers.
- The clown's leering mask terrified the children at the carnival.
- The politician's leering smile did not inspire confidence in the voters.
- The cat's leering eyes seemed to be judging the mouse.
- The leering moon seemed to be watching over the lovers as they strolled through the park.
FAQs About the word leering
showing sly or knowing malice in a glance, (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lasciviousof Leer
bawdy, unprintable, ribald, obscene, locker-room, filthy, smutty, indecent, pornographic, dirty
innocuous, innocuous, decent, inoffensive, prudish, puritanical, puritanical, decent, Victorian,clean
The creeper was leering at the school children as they walked by.
The man's leering grin made the children feel uncomfortable.
The villain had a leering smile on his face as he approached the protagonist.
The monster's leering eyes followed the group as they tried to escape.
