Definitions for leers

leers leer

Spelling: [leer]
IPA: /lɪər/

Leers is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in leers (eelrs).

Definitions for leers

noun

  1. a lascivious or sly look.
  2. lehr.

verb (used without object)

  1. to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention:

Origin of leers

1520-30; perhaps v. use of obsolete leer cheek (Middle English leor, Old English hlēor; cognate with Old Norse hlȳr (plural))

Examples for leers

What do I care for public opinion, for gossip, for their leers and whispers?

He leers at us through the two red eyes of the locomotive; its stout cylinder represents his embonpoint.

With smirkings and grimacings and leers that started his shudders afresh, she told him all.

She leans forward and leers up into the face of her Prodigal.

It was so unlike Glenerne and the leers about the aquarium corner.

And as for our worst, when we as we say let ourselves go, we dirty the life-force unspeakably, with chuckles and leers.

The buccaneers sprang at the terrified women and priests, some with weapons out, others with leers and outstretched arms.

There were squints, and leers, and some dull, ox-like stares from those who were too dull or too weary to converse.

But the attack was definitively broken off at nightfall and the Republicans withdrew slowly towards Lannoy and leers.

He shrugs his shoulders, opens his eyes, leers, and—there is the complete manufactured article.

Word Value for leers
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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