Meaning of ASKANCE
| Pronunciation: | | u'skans
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | askant, asquint, indirect, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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