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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Askance \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Askance \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: askance 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" [syn: {askant}, {asquint}, {squint}, {squint-eyed}, {squinty}, {sidelong}] adv 1: with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer" 2: with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
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