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Definition of Askance

1. Adverb. With suspicion or disapproval. "He looked askance at the offer"

2. Adjective. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy. "Sidelong glances"

3. Adverb. With a side or oblique glance. "Did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"

Definition of Askance

1. adv. Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

2. v. t. To turn aside.

Definition of Askance

1. Adverb. (context: of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion. ¹

2. Adverb. Sideways; obliquely. ¹

3. Adjective. Turned to the side, especially of the eyes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Askance

1. with a side glance [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Askance

ask after ask around ask for ask for it ask for the moon ask for trouble ask in ask me one on sport ask my arse ask out

ask over ask round ask the question askability askable askance (current term) askanced askances askancing askant

askanted askanting askants askard askari askaris aske asked asked around asked for

Literary usage of Askance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sir Robert Peel by Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (1899)
"of looking askance." It does not appear that anything in Peel's public or private career justifies the imputation of slyness. His shyness may have given him ..."

2. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1893)
"Even my very old friend the Dean of Westminster looks at me quite askance; and yet I really believe, if I may speak in my own favour, that no one takes more ..."

3. Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor (1883)
"And his distinction-stars, as one Not to be touched but looked upon, And smirks askance, as who should say " I'd lay now (if I e'er did lay) The brightest ..."

4. Choisy: A Novel by James P. Story (1872)
"... than one troop of bloused workmen coming up from the river to their early labor, — heavy-browed men, who eyed them askance and muttered in undertones. ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"... i860. to be our enemies, yet to look askance upon our labors, suddenly threw off the disguise and shone among the foremost and the friendliest, ..."

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