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I'd like to frame challenge a little bit and ask: what specifically is your goal here? Why do you want to wear the leggings? Is it about keeping warm while exercising outside in winter? Do you just like how they feel and/or look? Are you exercising or cycling for transport?
Personally, when cycling for exercise in winter* I put on my usual short cycling knicks or bib-knicks, and then over that I put long leg socks designed for cycling. Unlike tights, leg socks don't interact with your waist and hip at all—that's left to your normal clothes. They're cut to smoothly allow you knee to bend, and they are long enough for the top to cover your knicks and he bottom to be covered by your (foot) socks. I also wear arm socks, which do much the same over the elbow. It's also possible to buy long knicks if that's preferable.
When cycling for transport in summer I often wear cycling gear and get changed at my destination. In winter I'm much more likely to dress for the destination. I wrap a hair scrunchie around my right leg to keep my pants' material from getting dirtied and cut by my chainring.
For running, where I live just normal running shorts work fine in winter as long as I do a really good warm up. But I imagine the leg socks could be helpful here too.
/* Though I live somewhere quite warm. A cold winter's night might, at the most extreme, reach as low as 6 ℃. But it's far more typical for the night to not drop below 10°, and for the day, even the early morning, to be 14–18°. So exactly how applicable my experiences are to where you live is unclear.
I basically want to use them as regular sport pants to run, walk, cycle, stretch and given that I have to walk a lot for my job, I may use them daily as a first layer, so my legs don't hurt as much as without them. I'd also like to use em with nothing on them, because they look good like that with no lines (where I live I only see men with the leggings on, with nothing to cover their crotch). The regular pants I have are very loose, I'm tall and skinny built and I always have trouble finding the right pants: long enough to cover my legs and thin enough not to waste too much fabric. The leggings I'm testing (asics, nb) seem to do exactly that.
I'm not going to wear them on social occasions but I may do the groceries with them on.
Yeah so my recommendation is that for cycling, wearing knicks or bib-knicks is a better idea. The padded chamois is much more comfortable while cycling than unpadded regular clothes, even regular non-cycling-specific sports clothing. They're also explicitly intended to be used without any underwear. I think with the exception of wearing them around to the shops, knicks are a much better option for cycling than leggings.
I don't have any more specific advice for running, because I've always worn loose-fitting running shorts. Leggings may be the best option for you there.