leer

Các nghĩa

1. liếc nhìn, đưa mắt nhìn (với vẻ dâm dục hoặc ác ý)

   To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.

   intransitive

   And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.

   It was a quarter well stocked with deformed, leering, unkempt and uncombed idiots, who held out hands or caps and begged piteously.

   “Hush! Don’t say that. You have done enough evil in your life. My God! Don’t you see that accursed thing leering at us?”

2. quyến rũ bằng cái nhìn dâm dục

   To entice with a leer or leers.

   transitive

   But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.

Dạng khác

• leers present, singular, third-person
• leering participle, present
• leered participle, past

Dễ nhầm với

Âm /l/, /n/ và /r/ dễ lẫn