1. [adv]  with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
2. [adv]  with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"
3. [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"

ASKANCE is a 7 letter word that starts with A.

1. \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.
   

2. \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.