1.
[syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]
ADVERB (2)
1. with suspicion or disapproval;
- Example: "he looked askance at the offer"
2. with a side or oblique glance;
- Example: "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adv. [Cf. D. schuin,
schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf.
Asquint.]
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy,
or suspicion.
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They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.
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My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.
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Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]
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O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
--Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
askance
adv 1: with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the
offer"
2: with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the
way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
adj 1: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or
as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with
their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong
glances" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint,
squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "askance":
aside, askant, askew, asquint, awry, broadside, broadside on, cam,
captiously, censoriously, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crabwise,
critically, crookedly, cynically, disapprovingly, distrustfully,
doubtfully, doubtingly, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, glancingly,
laterad, laterally, on its side, on the beam, reproachfully,
right and left, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway,
sideways, sidewise, sidling, skeptically, suspiciously,
unfavorably