Askance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Askance \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.
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           They dart away; they wheel askance.      --Beattie.
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           My palfrey eyed them askance.            --Landor.
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           Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
                                                    --Gladstone.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
     To turn aside. [Poet.]
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           O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
           That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
                                                    --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  askance
       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" [syn: {askant}, {asquint}, {squint}, {squint-eyed},
              {squinty}, {sidelong}]
       adv 1: with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the
              offer"
       2: with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the
          way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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