Thesaurus: askance

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1. adv. Alt. of Askant
2. v. t. To turn aside.
3. adj. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
4. adv. with suspicion or disapproval
5. adv. with a side or oblique glance
6. 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. To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.
7. To turn aside. [Poet.]O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeedsaskance their eyes! Shak.
8. r:100 s. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy r. with suspicion or disapproval r. with a side or oblique glance