no obj.
- look or gaze in an unpleasant, malign, or lascivious way令人讨厌(或恶意、色迷迷)地看:
bystanders were leering at the nude painting
旁观者斜眼看着裸体画
as adj. leering every leering eye in the room was on her.屋里每个人都斜着眼睛瞅她。
- an unpleasant, malign, or lascivious look令人厌恶(或恶意、色迷迷)的目光。
派生词
leeringly
adverb词源
mid 16th cent. (in the general sense 'look sideways or askance'): perhaps from obsolete leer 'cheek', from Old English hlèor, as though the sense were 'to glance over one's cheek'.