Is that a smile or a leer?
Source: tatoeba (5363923)
Leer
//lɪə//
Synonyms for "leer" (165 found)
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Adjective(11 words)
Noun(1 words)
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3 entriesetymologically related_to
4 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
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41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
Translations
30 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κατιλλώπτω verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Bulgarian
1 entries- похотлив поглед noun (a sly or lecherous look)
Czech
2 entries- chlípný pohled noun (a sly or lecherous look)
- (chlípně) pošilhávat verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Dutch
2 entries- lonken verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- wellustig bekijken verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Esperanto
2 entries- okulumaĉi verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- rigardaĉi verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Finnish
3 entries- mulkaista verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- mulkoilla verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- silmäillä verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
French
3 entries- lorgner verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- mater verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- zieuter verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
German
4 entries- anzügliches Grinsen noun (a sly or lecherous look)
- lüsterner Blick noun (a sly or lecherous look)
- anzüglich blicken verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- schielen verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Hebrew
1 entries- פָּזַל verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Hungarian
1 entries- stírol verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Irish
1 entries- claonfhéachaint noun (a sly or lecherous look)
Italian
1 entries- guardare di traverso verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Latvian
2 entries- glūnēt verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- lūrēt verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Persian
1 entries- نگاه کج کردن verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Polish
1 entries- patrzeć pożądliwie verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Russian
3 entries- косо́й взгляд noun (a sly or lecherous look)
- ко́со смотре́ть verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
- смотре́ть с вожделе́нием verb (to look with sexual desire or malicious intent)
Welsh
1 entries- cilwen noun (a sly or lecherous look)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Look at the leer on Tom's face.
Source: tatoeba (9933928)
And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.
Source: wiktionary
I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.