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English Dictionary: askance	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
askance adv with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer" with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes" 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" Synonym(s): askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Askance \Askance"\, Askant \Askant"\, 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Askance \Askance"\, v. t. To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance* their eyes! --Shak.