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Askance

adverb

With suspicion or disapproval.

With a side or oblique glance.

adjective

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy. Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty. "Sidelong glances"

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"Askance" Quotes from Famous Books

... is just about opinions, to which I have listened too long. I know but too well that we are not liked here, and that these citizens look askance ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... of his perturbation, Cap'n Pigg looked askance at mention of the hated instrument. But it was a case of 'any port in a storm,' and, with a grim nod, he relieved the mate at the wheel, ...

— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various

... of those in Albert Duerer's cuts, rises at a distance as if within walls. I stand in the roadside alone, deserted, the sole traveller set down. The train has flown on into the night with a shriek. The sleepy porter wonders, and looks at me askance. ...

— A Day's Tour • Percy Fitzgerald

... to see this same personification troubling the educated preacher as well as the unlearned fisherman. The Rev. William Farrar, when left alone with the unwelcome coin, looked askance at it. He did not like to see it on his desk, he had a repugnance to touch it. Then he forced himself to lift the sovereign, and by an elaborate fingering of the coin convince his intellect that he had no foolish superstition ...

— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... countenance, with a mass of white hair falling over his ears and neck, who was generally occupied with some cobbling work, and who from time to time, as he drew out the thread, would make some remark aloud, as if he thought he still had the partner of his life for audience. The look askance over his brass spectacles with which he greeted any casual stranger who might come into the house had very little welcome in it, and an expression about his sunken mouth and sharp chin said plainly enough that the other might state ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

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