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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASK'ANCE,
ASK'ANT, adv. sideways; obliquely; towards one corner of the eye.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (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: askance, 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"

Merriam Webster's

also askant adverb Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1530 1. with a side-glance ; obliquely 2. with disapproval or distrust ; scornfully <they eyed the stranger askance>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. (also askant) sideways or squinting. Phrases and idioms: look askance at regard with suspicion or disapproval. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you look askance at someone or something, you have a doubtful or suspicious attitude towards them. They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR at n 2. If you look askance atsomeone, you look at them in a doubtful or suspicious way. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR at n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad.; (also askant) Obliquely, sideways, sidewise, askew, awry, aslant, asquint, on one side, out of the corner of one's eye.

Moby Thesaurus

aside, askant, askew, asquint, awry, broadside, broadside on, cam, captiously, censoriously, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crabwise, critically, crookedly, cynically, disapprovingly, distrustfully, doubtfully, doubtingly, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, glancingly, laterad, laterally, on its side, on the beam, reproachfully, right and left, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling, skeptically, suspiciously, unfavorably