Definitions for: Askance

[adv] with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
[adv] with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"
[adj] (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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.

My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.

A*skance", v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from
their own misdeeds askance their eyes! --Shak.

Synonyms: askant, asquint, indirect, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty

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