leering 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of leeringnext
as in lascivious

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leering

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verb

present participle of leer
as in ogling

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  1. lascivious
  2. prurient
  3. filthy
  4. obscene
  5. indecent
  6. locker-room
  7. smutty
  8. raunchy
Adjective
  • He was charged with seven counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a child between 12 and 16 years old, three counts of offenses against students by authority figures, and three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The goal of Troye and Charli’s austere, loud, lascivious evening is to take the sweet abandon of the club and scale it up to the arena.
    Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of lascivious
Adjective
  • During this time, Law was hounded by the press and made into an object of prurient fascination and lust.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Apart from prurient interest, why should any of us really care?
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of prurient
Adjective
  • In the earlier seasons of the show, characters were often filthy, caked with dirt and blood, clothes tattered.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • My father was living alone in that dark, filthy room like an old animal wallowing in its own excrement.
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of filthy
Adjective
  • He was booked on charges of enticing a child under 16, distribution of obscene matter, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, obscene content has been censored, and services that clearly broke intellectual property laws, like Napster, WikiLeaks, and The Pirate Bay were shuttered, but, for the average person, the internet remained broadly open in the United States.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of obscene
Adjective
  • Orange Beach has a vulgarity ordinance on the books, which was enacted about a decade ago amid concerns about vulgar or indecent T-shirts and other merchandise sold at souvenir stores.
    al, al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Because there are more good people than indecent ones.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
Definition of indecent
Adjective
  • The veteran would bring a new element to the Vancouver bottom six and is known as a strong locker-room presence.
    Pierre LeBrun, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In January, Queen played heavy minutes in back-to-back games on a West Coast road trip with the team ailing and battling locker-room illnesses.
    Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of locker-room
Adjective
  • Season one is a smutty yet wonderful crescendo of self-destruction driven by a cast of characters that includes Fleabag’s intensely awkward sister Claire (Sian Clifford), her selfish and pretentious stepmother (Olivia Colman), and her clueless father (Bill Paterson).
    Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Are any of these turns worth sitting through nine hours of smutty true crime recreations?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of smutty
Adjective
  • Meanwhile Apatow's Bridesmaids, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, came out two years later and starred Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Elli Kemper in a raunchy tale about female friendship centered around a bachelorette trip and wedding planning.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The pair were introduced at a deli by Josh Schwartz, a producer on both Gossip Girl and The O.C., before acting together on the set of the raunchy 2011 comedy The Oranges shortly after.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of raunchy
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