Help please!

[unfeathered]

Can anyone think of another way of saying leer/smirk/grin? I've got the Master leering and smirking and grinning a lot and I'd like to find some other ways of saying it.

Bloomin' Thesaurus is no help, because it can't think outside the box. I just wondered if any of my real live friends could help! :-)

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There aren't a whole lot - especially since they're not completely interchangeable. You can add an 'unpleasant' tag and get there, and there's always sneer - though that's a little different, too. Hopefully someone with a better vocabulary will wander along. Or my brain'll wake up.

[unfeathered]

Hmm, yes 'unpleasant' could work in some cases, and sneer in the same sort.

What he's doing more, though, is less the unpleasant sneering and more "I find you sexy, Jack" (well, who doesn't?) leering.

And I'm definitely painting myself into corners by having the Master tell it himself - if I could just describe what his face actually looks like I could use some other words more easily. John Simm has such a wonderful lot of facial expressions - almost as good as David Tennant! - and I'm trying to get them across without actually physically describing them.

Ah well. I guess I'll just have to try and get it across in other ways.