Askance

askance
    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"
    adj 1: (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: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint},
           {squint-eyed}, {squinty}, {sidelong}]
    

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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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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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