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Askant

adjective
1.
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.  Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty.  "Sidelong glances"






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"Askant" Quotes from Famous Books



... account—on which, from what he afterwards told me, I have somewhat enlarged—just as we got up to the tent. The unhappy madmen stood in front of it waiting for us. Though excited in their looks and wild in their conversation, they seemed perfectly prepared to accompany us. They looked with eyes askant at the mate and his three companions, but ...
— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Askant" :   askance, indirect



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