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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

... undergone, the sooner he was aware of the place he held in men's estimation, the better. He longed to have presented himself once more at the foundry; and then the reality would drive away the pictures that would (unbidden) come of a shunned man, eyed askance by all, and driven forth to ...

— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

... the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like ...

— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

... of his folios; but he gave me courteous welcome, and I laid the sword upon the table under his nose. Faith, John, I thought that same nose would grow to my blade, for a good half hour passed away, or ever he stirred or spoke. Then he looked askance at me ...

— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... People generally looked askance at him. If he was upon one side of the street the respectable part of the world made it convenient to pass by on the other side. He even found his relations with his philosophical acquaintance 'much restricted.' 'Most of the members of the Royal Society ...

— The Bibliotaph - and Other People • Leon H. Vincent

... had she to share Burdens that grew almost too great to bear, For Redstar sometimes seemed to look askance, And sought, they said, to win another breast. Winona feigned to laugh, but in her heart The rumor rankled like a poisoned dart. Sometimes she almost thought the Raven guessed The guilty secrets that her thoughts oppressed, And sought, whene'er ...

— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various

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