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Definition of Askant
1. Adjective. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy. "Sidelong glances"
Definition of Askant
1. Adjective. (dated) Aslant, or sloping. ¹
2. Adverb. (dated) Aslant, or askance, or sideways ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Askant
1. askance [adv] - See also: askance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Askant
Literary usage of Askant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mnemonic Similiad by Stacy Jones (1904)
"This Grace,—Who is subject to agglutinated eyelids,—Is at Palm Arbor, with eye
askant for Eugene Bari-bor, the Potter. RAWNESS IN THE FOLDS OF THE SKIN: ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"I. Inquirer, petitioner, solicitor) solicitant, suitor. 2. Water-newt, ask.
askant, f askew, awry, aslant, asquint, on one side, out oí the corner of one's ..."
3. The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop (1868)
"Agley, aside, askant. Ahint, behind. Aiblins, perhaps. Ail, injury, hurt. Ain, own.
Air, soon, early. ... Ajee, to one side, askant A lane, alone. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1906)
"There are border line cases where the askant eyes bespeak anger rather than fear,
where, by his nervous, embarrassed behavior, the dog seems hardly to know ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"the gaze of those present, so that he almost invariably casts down his eyes or
looks askant. As there generally exists at the same time a strong wish to ..."
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