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 Translation for 'leer' from English to Spanish
NOUN   a leer | leers
VERB   to leer | leered | leered
leering | leers
SYNO leer | sneer
mirar malintencionadamenteto leer [look maliciously]
mirada {f} lascivaleer [lustful look]
mirada {f} maliciosaleer [malicious look]
mirar a algn lascivamenteto leer at sb. [lasciviously]
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  • leer (algo) = to read (sth.)
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Usage Examples English
  • In July 2020, Xiaxue lost brand sponsorships following police reports over racist tweets, including tweets that were targeted at foreign workers, alleging “they molest people and f*** our maids and leer at girls and flood Little India” and the attempt to use the N-word in certain context.
  • The final scene shows Small Paul alone in a darkened room, silently churning an ice cream bucket, his face twisted into an evil leer just like Gregory's.
  • Those contrasts can be observed "between the Primer manifiesto nadaísta (1958), or Prosas para leer en la silla eléctrica" (1965")," and his last writings.
  • CBS explained the show as follows: "If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer.
  • According to the "Chicago Tribune" reviewer, Louise Alexander presented a "wanton leer that is quite a work of art" and she was "a wonder at seductive crouches".

  • The town of Vanleer, Tennessee is named in his honor. Van Leer hired famed William Strickland to design his children's homes.
  • In his "Briefwisseling van Philagathos en Philalethes over de leer van het zedelijk gevoel" (1771) he opposed "moral feeling" as the basis of ethics, and in 1772 he edited and published the works of his hero Christian Wollf under the title "Les Institutions du Droit de la Nature et des Gens de Wolff".
  • "Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht" is frequently sung in Easter services.
  • His "beeld-leer" resulted in the D.I.A.L. (Decimal Index of the Art of the Low Countries) based on the Dewey Decimal System, and later called Iconclass.
  • Among the regional hymns are the Easter hymn "Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht", the Trinity hymn "Gott Vater, sei gepriesen" and the Marian hymn "Nun, Brüder, sind wir frohgemut".

  • Their son Vanleer Polk and their daughter Antoinette Van Leer Polk grew up at the mansion.
  • There was a Spanish language version of IITRAN at IIT as well. It utilized Spanish keywords rather than English ones. For example, the keyword "read" was replaced by "leer".
  • His broad smile, encasing a row of gleaming teeth, seems more a snarl or leer.
  • Two men comment to each other as they leer at passing women.
  • For example, Oost-Veluws has "ledder" 'ladder', while in West-Veluws the form "leer" is used which is probably a loan from 17th century Hollandic.

  • Amycus is described as being squat and lumpy, with a lopsided leer and a wheezy giggle; Alecto is described as a "stocky little woman" and shares her brother's squatness and laugh.
  • Among the books he has co-authored are "Breve historia del leer" (a Brief History of reading, Ariel, 2009) and "El fin de una época" (the End of an Epoch, Barril & Barral, 2011).
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