It didn't help that the defendant would leer at the jury during the trial. From LearnThat.org.
The leer was a parody of Pham's self-assured smile. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
I wonder now, when I recall his leer, that I did not collar him, and try to shake the breath out of his body. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield]
The word "leer" is useful: It lets you know there's a line you will be judged by. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
The low-browed leer of the brutal, base-born slave?. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
"She always seems to leer at one so," went on Mollie. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
"The mouth has a sort of malevolent leer, hasn't it?". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
With a malicious leer he motioned me to accompany him. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
He read the leer in Merritt's eyes as he spoke of pictures. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Ab, with a leer, said: "Gosh, I was afeard she'd get lost.". From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
"You've been looking over my stock?" said Druce with a leer. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
I bow low and leer at her, waggling my eyebrows like Groucho. From Wordnik.com. [Adultery and Africa] Reference
Before the horrible lascivious leer of this object O'Hana fled. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Pere Gardinois would ask his grand-daughter with a cunning leer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She turned to leer at him now, half closing her clear blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
She received it with a coaxing leer in her eyes, looking up at him. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He smiled -- but it was closer to a leer -- and lunged into his cabin. From Wordnik.com. [A Place in the Sun] Reference
"The Sahib is long in returning," she volunteers, with a nervous leer. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Then Ibraheim Omair leaned forward with a horrible leer and beckoned to. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
But this house seemed to leer at you through a filthy parade of modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
There was no leer upon his fat face now; it expressed nothing but terror. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
"Goo'-by," responded Zank, with a leer that struck Fred as being rather ugly. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
Craft and fear and mistrust may leer and mourn and murmur and plead and plain. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
"Not till you get your ugly paws on her!" said Werner with a significant leer. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
I GOT MY SNAKEBITE KIT, '' SAYS Steve Austin, twisting his face in a mock leer. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Cold Crazy!] Reference
Hiram was betrayed into returning Mr. Bennett's leer before he was aware of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Opposite him stood Starr Wiley, his bruised lips twisted into a leer of triumph. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"Well," he said, with a leer meant to be clever, "I suppose you fellows know me?". From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Was there a suggestion of a leer in Sordello's lumpy face as he stared at Sophia?. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
He had a twisted leer on his face, and his eyes were going in different directions. From Wordnik.com. [God Particle] Reference
"Hey, Sailor — you want to come hang out at Cafe Borrone and leer at pretty girls?". From Wordnik.com. [Sailor's Visa] Reference
The girl subsided, and Billiard found courage to leer triumphantly at her discomfiture. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Again that cunning leer came into the dissipated face of the bartender, and he said quickly. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
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