askance

Speech parts

1. askance - Adjective

2. askance - Verb

3. askance - Adverb

5. askance - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Askant

To turn aside.

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Examples

It is characteristic of the British Public to look askance at any deliberate, systematic attempt to rationalise our institutions. Stanley Baldwin

She looked at me askance. "Of course I bribed him, Victor. You'd be amazed to know how cheaply. Does that bother you?” "Yes,” I admitted. "I don't like bribery.” "I'm indifferent to it. It happens, like gravity. It may not be admirable, but it gets things done.”. John Varley

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space. Robert Stack

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them. Garry Disher

There is a distinct reluctance, almost an unwillingness, on the part of Torah to grant man the privilege to consume meat. Man as an animal-eater is looked at askance by the Torah. There are definitive vegetarian tendencies in the Bible. Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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