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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Askant has 1 sense
- askant(s = adj.all) askance, asquint, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty - (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"; "sidelong glances"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Askant, adv. [Cf. D. schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf. Asquint.].
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. [1913 Webster]
"They dart away; they wheel askance."
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"My palfrey eyed them askance."
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"Both . . . were viewed askance by authority."
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Askant, adj.
toward the side, rather than directly ahead; -- used of a glance. [WordNet 1.5]