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   leer

   /lɪə/

   verb

   • 1. look or gaze in a lascivious or unpleasant way: "bystanders were leering at the nude painting"

   noun

   • 1. a lascivious or unpleasant look: "he gave me a sly leer"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the general sense ‘look sideways or askance’): perhaps from obsolete leer ‘cheek’, from Old English hlēor, as though the sense were ‘to glance over one's cheek’.

   Scrabble Points: 4

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

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