Askance
[ə'skæns;ə'skɑːns] or [ə'skæns]
Definition
(adj.) (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' .
(adv.) with a side or oblique glance; 'did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes'.
(adv.) with suspicion or disapproval; 'he looked askance at the offer'.
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Definition
(adv.) Alt. of Askant
(v. t.) To turn aside.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.
Typist: Remington
Definition
adv. sideways: awry: obliquely: with a side glance or with a side meaning.—v.t. (Shak.) to turn aside.—To eye look or view askance to look at with suspicion.
Editor: Stephen
Examples
- Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The two officers, looking at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each other, exchanged the most frightful sympathetic grins. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Editor: Stephen