About The Word Askance
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Askance
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What's The Definition Of Askance?
[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" [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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Askance: askant | asquint | indirect | sidelong | squint | squint-eyed | squinty Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Askance In Webster's Dictionary \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.
They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.
My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.
Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.
\A*skance"\, v. t. To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! --Shak. |
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