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askance

POS

Adjective, Adverb

HYPHEN

a=skance

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective askance has 1 sense

askance(s = adj.all) askant, 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"

Adverbial askance has 2 senses

askance(r = adv.all) - with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"

askance(r = adv.all) - with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

askance, 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." [1913 Webster]

"My palfrey eyed them askance." [1913 Webster]

"Both . . . were viewed askance by authority." [1913 Webster]

askance, v. t.

To turn aside. [1913 Webster]

"O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!" [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

askance, adv. (also askant) sideways or squinting.

Idiom

look askance at regard with suspicion or disapproval.

Etymology

16th c.: orig. unkn.

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THESAURUS

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