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

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  1. adv. Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
  2. adj. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
  3. 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.
  4. s (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy