Askance Definition

ə-skăns
adverb
With disapproval, suspicion, or distrust.
American Heritage
With a sideways glance.
Webster's New World
With a sideways glance; obliquely.
American Heritage
With suspicion, disapproval, etc.
Webster's New World

(of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.

The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.
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adjective

Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.

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Origin of Askance

  • Compare Dutch schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Compare asquint.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Askance Sentence Examples

  • Though there are many Christians in India to-day, the Hindu still looks askance at Christianity, not because it is a religion but because it is foreign.

  • If anything, the audience looked askance at the crude comment.

  • He looked askance at all projects for the emancipation of the serfs, but, as one of the largest landowners of Denmark, he did much service to agriculture by lightening the burdens of the countrymen and introducing technical and scientific improvements which greatly increased production.

  • Dean didn't bother to mention certain rules of evidence that looked askance at pilfered items.

  • Damasus, to whom they appealed for help, was unable to be of much service to them, the more so because that episcopal group, viewed askance by St Athanasius and his successor Peter, was incessantly combated at the papal court by the inveterate hatred of Alexandria.

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