OXFORD 9000
📚 adv • entry_id 13850

askance

/əˈskæns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
con recelo
With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.
The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminat…
de reojo • de soslayo • de través
Sideways; obliquely.
...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.
I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.
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